Contact Tracing
Get and Keep America Open: Supporting states, tribes, localities, and territories
Revisions were made on June 4, 2020 to reflect the following:
- New! Health Department Checklist: Developing a COVID-19 Case Investigation & Contact Tracing Plan pdf [417 KB, 6 pages]
- New! Daily Temperature/Symptom Log for Close Contacts pdf [216 KB, 2 pages]
- New! Self-Isolation and Self-Quarantine Home Assessment Checklist pdf [219 KB, 2 pages]
CDC guidance for COVID-19 may be adapted by state and local health departments to respond to rapidly changing local circumstances.
Key Concepts
- Trace and monitor contacts of infected people. Notify them of their exposure.
- Support the quarantine of contacts. Help ensure the safe, sustainable and effective quarantine of contacts to prevent additional transmission.
- Expand staffing resources. Contact tracing in the US will require that states, tribes, localities and territorial establish large cadres of contact tracers.
- Use digital tools. Adoption and evaluation of digital tools may expand reach and efficacy of contact tracers.
Training
Digital Tools
- New! COVID-19 Contact Tracing Communications Toolkit for Health Departments
- Preliminary Criteria for the Evaluation of Digital Contact Tracing Tools for COVID-19 pdf [107 KB, 3 pages]
- Digital Contact Tracing Tools for COVID-19 164 KB, 1 pages]: This fact sheet describes different digital contact tracing tools for COVID-19 by primary purpose and primary user.
Guidance
- Health Departments: Interim guidance on developing a COVID-19 case investigation & contact tracing plan[1 MB, 56 pages]
- New! Health Department Checklist: Developing a COVID-19 Case Investigation & Contact Tracing Plan [417 KB, 6 pages]
- New! Daily Temperature/Symptom Log for Close Contacts [216 KB, 2 pages]
- New! Self-Isolation and Self-Quarantine Home Assessment Checklist [219 KB, 2 pages]
- Key Information to Collect During a Case Interview
- Principles of Contact Tracing: CDC’S Basic principles of contact tracing to stop COVID-19 transmission.
- Handling Non-COVID-19 Public Health Activities that Require Face-to-Face Interaction with Clients in the Clinic and Field in the Current COVID-19 Pandemic: CDC guidance for the management of public health workers engaged in public health activities that require face-to-face interaction with clients in clinic and field settings.
- Community-Related Exposures: CDC’s recommendations for community-related exposures.
- Travel-Associated Exposures: CDC’s recommendations for travel-associated exposures.
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