New Jersey's data indicates that "nearly half of cases refuse to provide names of contacts." That makes it a little hard to trace. Maryland reports the same problem.
Louisiana's data shows the lion's share of outbreaks coming from bars, industrial/food processing settings, restaurants, retail settings, and daycare.
Washington DC's data shows that 95.5% of the new cases reported were not from people who were on their contact tracing list. Maybe that's not surprising if only half of the people they contact are providing contact names.
Delaware has a problem getting phone numbers of the people whose names are on their contact list. They have a much better percentage of people willing to name their contacts than New Jersey and Maryland, but there's a percentage of those the state can't contact because they can't call.
We desperately need a federal standardized program and an all-out effort to do contact tracing. We're not going to get it. At least not for the rest of this year.
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