Many health departments losing race to warn contacts of COVID victims

SPECIAL REPORT: As of June, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director said the country had 27,000 contact tracers – about a quarter of what has been recommended by a national association of health agencies

With the pandemic claiming hundreds of American lives daily, many city and county health departments say they lack the money and staff to warn people who have been exposed, a Reuters survey finds. At least one jurisdiction has given up, asking people with the coronavirus to tell contacts themselves.

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