NEW YORK: Contact tracing is supposed to be one of the key weapons in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and for months authorities in ...
Experts estimate that the US as a whole - which has seen more than 84,000 COVID-19 deaths, by far the most of any country - will need at least 100,000 contact tracers.
Since mid-April the governor of New York - the hardest-hit state - has talked about hiring between 6,000 and 17,000 tracing agents. "You really do need government to be able to step up and take on this responsibility on behalf of the people," Chan said."And because that has not happened at the federal level, it's been left up to the individual states to work out the details."Even in Chan's state of Massachusetts, which has been a pioneer in organizing contact tracing, the program is still not fully up and running.
Julian Drix, who has been a tracer in the small neighboring state of Rhode Island since March, says that many who are"traced" are undocumented immigrants who are wary of authorities, and that there are not enough bilingual tracers.
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