Ask the Expert: What is Contact Tracing?

Due to COVID-19, “contact tracing” has been added to our vocabulary. Most people are wondering: what is it and how should we comply? Not everyone understands it is essential to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus. Dr. Mieka Smart, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Division of Public Health in the College of Human Medicine, answers questions about contact tracing.