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Wanted In New York: Thousands Of COVID-19 Contact Tracers

Starting this month, health departments in New York are trying to hire thousands of workers to build up what could become one of the country's largest contact tracing programs for the coronavirus.

As more states turn to contact tracing as part of their next phase in containing the coronavirus, New York is trying to build what could become one of the largest contact tracing programs for COVID-19 in the United States.

Starting this month, as many as 17,000 contact tracers as health departments across New York prepare.

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