Current epidemiology research on COVID-19 shows that contact tracing is only able to curb the growth of the epidemic, if we identify 50% of the positive cases and trace 60% of their contacts with no delay. If we take more than three days to quarantine …

Containing the spread of COVID-19 (and the SARS-CoV-2 virus) involves an interlocking set of activities and none of these alone are a silver bullet to technically containing the virus. Due to the high natural rate of infection for COVID-19 (it has a ba …