New York City is reopening with over 40% residents fully vaccinated and less than 500 weekly average cases, according to the city's health department.
Dr. Ted Long of NYC COVID-19 Test & Trace Corps said contact tracers are now reaching 97% of cases.
"It's going to be the summer of outbreak hunting," he said.
NYC will be deploying contact tracers with mobile vaccine and testing units to communities with outbreaks for sustained COVID-19 suppression.
Following chains of transmission will lead to the most vulnerable people, "who need vaccines, who need support, who need food packages and cleaning supplies and masks to safely isolate and quarantine," Boyette said.
Dr. Clarence Lam, interim director of occupational health services and the department of health, safety and the environment at Johns Hopkins, said the public should know contact tracing helps protect vaccinated people, too.
"There are breakthrough cases," Lam said. "We know that there are people who have been fully vaccinated who have come down with COVID."
Research shows the vaccines are likely effective against variants, and people who do experience breakthrough infection tend to have mild or no symptoms. However, proponents of contact tracing say it's important to get a better picture of whether vaccinated people who experience breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others -- especially with the emergence of new variants.
"If we have variants that are more infectious, something that seems to work and control transmission in the past may not work in the future," said Dr. Dean Blumberg, chair of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital.
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