The Importance of Two Epidemiological Tasks in General Medicinethat are not Usually Performed in an Infectious Outbreak: MonitoringNegative Cases and Tracing Back Positive Cases: The Example ofCovid-19

Abstract

In recent years, there has been growing interest in infectious disease outbreaks. The pandemics of SARS, influenza A, MERS, Ebola, and, especially, covid-19 that occurred in the 21st century have demonstrated the difficulty of controlling high-incidence epidemics without collaboration and coordination between public health services and general medicine.