These case-based tactics are why New Zealand kept the virus out of their country and why the nations of the Pacific Rim got control of their outbreaks. When we finally lifted the stay-at-home order, we failed to transition from community-wide mitigation to tracking down individual cases because we didn’t have the testing and contact tracing systems to support it. So, the virus flared after we reopened. It was a continuous cycle of infection. We never escaped.
