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I hate to tell you guys but we have been doing contact tracing for various diseases for decades: typhoid, tuberculosis, and especially STD’s (before the gay community decided having HIV was a human right and stopped contact tracing).

In fact, they are tracing cases now: I have a nurse friend at an inner city clinic in Albuquerque that cares for migrants. black and Hispanic minorities, and urban Indians, and they have been tracing contacts for Covid cases.

Often these folks live in a house with many other family members, so the entire extended family is at risk.

As one example: The high rate among the Navajo started when a man from Phoenix decided to attend a local revival on the reservation. The virus spread to those who attended the church service, and they took it home to their families.

The Navajo have a high rate of poverty, and many members have diabetes or high blood pressure. But the main reason it spread so badly was because Native Americans care for their frail, elderly or sick family members.

(I've worked among the Navajo and the Apache) and here in the Philippines, we are starting to have enough tests to check for contacts: I hope so. You see, we were covid free in our area until some nurse decided to visit family for a birthday party. Now we are back in semi lockdown, and to go to another city need to be screened and given a health certificate before we travel.