CDC Director: ‘Very Aggressive’ Contact Tracing Needed For U.S. To Return To Normal

(By Selena Simmons-Duffin  and Rob Stein for NPR)

It’s the question on everyone’s minds: What will it take for us to come out of this period of extreme social distancing and return to some semblance of normal life?

It turns out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been working on a plan to allow the U.S. to safely begin to scale back those policies. CDC Director Robert Redfield spoke with NPR on Thursday, saying that the plan relies on not only ramped-up testing but “very aggressive” contact tracing of those who do test positive for the coronavirus, and a major scale-up of personnel to do the necessary work.  Continue reading article here…

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