Who did you see? States are beefing up their contact-tracing teams to fight the coronavirus pandemic and help reopen battered economies.
Sandra Melman asks the sick person on the other end of the phone to grab a calendar. She wants to know everything the person did and everyone the person spent time with during the 48 hours before symptoms of the new coronavirus began to appear.
“We want to try and figure out how you got the disease and who could have been exposed to you, so we can help stop it from spreading,” said Ms. Melman, an epidemiologist for the New Mexico Department of Health, about what she typically tells the people she calls.
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