Comment by makomk

No amount of budget-boosting would be enough to keep up with exponential growth. If they hired enough people to cope with the contact tracing load near the end of lockdown plus a little bit of an increase, and then the increase was faster than expected, that sounds like a pretty clear sign that contact tracing is not a workable solution. (Which is, as I understand it, pretty much what we'd expect. Contact tracing has not conventionally been seen as even remotely viable for a respiratory disease like this one.)