St. Louis Health Officials Need Contact Tracing Transparency

Governing: Prominent local and national health experts are urging officials across the U.S. to begin sharing the details and locations of coronavirus outbreaks with the public. Greater transparency, they say, is essential to help Americans stay safe amid the intensifying pandemic.

Hundreds of contact tracers are at work now around the St. Louis area, retracing steps of the infected, notifying their close contacts, and hunting for lessons about the spread of the virus. But here, as in many regions, officials aren't publicly identifying hotspots where multiple residents have likely contracted the virus.

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