Sure, but equivalent tracing teams in some of the bad us cities would have two to three orders of magnitude higher case load per team member. The "traditional m

Sure, but equivalent tracing teams in some of the bad us cities would have two to three orders of magnitude higher case load per team member. The "traditional methods" like making phone calls as described in the article do not work at that scale. Yes testing and many other things are more effective, and tracing is less useful if you've effectively got rates down to manageable levels, but at unmanaged levels, automation _could_ really help. New York has more new cases per day than Iceland has handled in total.