How to Use tracing in a Sentence
tracing
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Last year, many of the absences were due to contact tracing.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021 -
The whole point of contact tracing is to break the chain of infection.
— oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021 -
But officials familiar with the tracing of Crooks’s weapon said the request was pushed to the front of the line.
— Perry Stein, Washington Post, 21 July 2024 -
While some users were shocked by the green dye, this isn’t the first time NYC has implemented dye tracing.
— Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023 -
Blackmon was out the first meeting, a 78-61 Jeff win, due to contract tracing.
— Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2021 -
Here are some ways to make measuring fun: Trace their body and then measure the tracing instead of the child.
— Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 22 July 2024 -
And, if parents do alert their schools, the process for contact tracing may be quicker.
— Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021 -
The fewer cases there are, the more effective the contact tracing is.
— Dov Lieber, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021 -
This tracing process usually takes a few hours or less.
— Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023 -
As for contact tracing, the city is in the process of shrinking its Test and Trace Corps, which last summer boasted of some 3,000 workers.
— New York Times, 7 July 2021 -
Then they were shut down for two weeks before their spring break because of contact tracing.
— Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021 -
Contact tracing found that less than 1% of the cases confirmed since that point stemmed from the tournament, Caine said.
— Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2021 -
We were assigned to the same table each night – better for contact tracing.
— Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2021 -
Then the pandemic broke out and the company launched a Covid-19 contact tracing app, SafePass.
— Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 3 June 2021 -
Then he was sidelined at times due to contact tracing, Mouser said.
— Travis Hines, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021 -
Schools are no longer required to conduct contact tracing, and most have stopped or slowed down testing.
— Seamus McAvoy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022 -
This has been especially helpful with contact tracing, since there’s a record of what clients have been seen and when.
— Gary Drenik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021 -
Without widespread testing and contact tracing, the extent of the outbreak is not clear.
— Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 8 July 2022 -
Build in less than a week’s time a call center dedicated to contact tracing in Texas.
— Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 June 2021 -
If the virus is spreading within a school, that might be identified through contact tracing.
— Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2021 -
This book instead is a tracing of the U.S.’s penchant for industrial foods back to the late 19th century.
— Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 2 May 2022 -
Singapore, like Hong Kong, kept the virus at bay for months with contact tracing and strict quarantines.
— Grady McGregor, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022 -
Our contact tracing relied too much on the hope that Americans — and Utahns — would answer their phones or choose to download an app.
— Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021 -
These people do contact tracing and outreach, and are a key piece of trying to stop the spread of syphilis, which reached a low point in the U.S. in 2000 but has increased almost every year since.
— Kenya Hunter, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023 -
Seizing the servers of that mixing service may well foil the FTX thieves’ attempt to evade tracing and help solve one of the central mysteries of that high-profile heist.
— Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Players who are two weeks past their full vaccination no longer are required by the league to be away from teams due to such contact tracing.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2021 -
In other words, contact tracing was useful in interrupting the spread of the disease.
— Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022 -
Massialas has spent the past 14 days quarantined in a hotel because of contact tracing.
— Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021 -
For the last decade, 23andMe has been known worldwide for offering genetic testing, ancestry tracing and health information to its customers.
— Abigail Adams, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Disease surveillance and contact tracing will be key as the virus has already spread to nearby countries, including Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda.
— Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
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