Covid-19: local implementation of tracing and testing programmes could enable some schools to reopen

Originally published as a letter in the BMJ, 24 March 2020: BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1187  As a public health physician, I am increasingly concerned about the apparent failure to implement fundamental public health measures to tackle the covid-19 outbreak—specifically, community contact tracing, clinical observation, and testing—and about what seems to be one of the knock-on effects of this […]