Georgia Today

How The "Lovett Cluster" Stymied Contact Tracers

Aug 21, 2020 · 23 min · 34.1 MB
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In May, local headlines told of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases among students at the prestigious Lovett School in Atlanta. Charles Bethea, a staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about what his reporting revealed about the tensions between privacy and the efforts by public health officials to contain the virus’ spread.