Contact tracing is a process used to understand how an infectious disease is spreading in a community. Contact tracing has two purposes: to figure out who a sick person caught an illness from, and to find out who they’ve been in contact with while infectious.
When a person is diagnosed with an infectious disease like , contact tracing is used to figure out where they caught the virus and who they might have passed it on to.
Contact tracing is a process conducted by health professionals all around the world, and Kevin Huynh works for one of those specialist teams at .