For the love of God people, it's not contract tracing - it's contact tracing.

Contact tracing

I realize it may roll off the tongue a little easier, but there's no excuse for an editor to do it in writing - a headline no less.

Contract tracing and preserving privacy: Mozilla Exec. on how to strike a balance

Maybe they are getting it from this: To contract a disease means to catch or acquire an illness through the exposure to a contagious pathogen.

Or they have auto-correct on the laptop.

Do we sign a contact for contract tracing?

Unless you're doing a title search. In that case, you may have to trace a contract or two.

Could be they are just ignorant. Those dumb sumbitches show up in some pretty amazing places.

I hate it when they trace contracts.

It is sooo retro. Haven't they heard of carbon paper!?!?!