A number of states facing worsening outbreaks of the coronavirus have not created robust contact tracing programs to help contain the spread, despite having bought weeks or months of time to prepare via costly stay-at-home orders.

Nor have the governments in question made public the details of their contact tracing programs, which identify people who may have come into contact with an individual diagnosed with the coronavirus and instruct them to self-quarantine. None of the states’ governors or health departments responded to inquiries from the Washington Examiner asking them to lay out the status of contact tracing in their states.