Contact Tracer Talks About the Difficulties of Following the Path of COVID

Contact tracing is a vital step in reopening our economy and resuming our lives in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. But it's an incredibly difficult task.

Maria DiCaro wiped away tears as she talked about the challenges of her work. “It's nice to get those positive reactions from people that are very grateful, that they do see the purpose of what we're doing,” she said. Maria works as a contact tracer: one part nurse, one part detective, trying to keep track of where and how COVID-19 spreads in the community. She said she sometimes encounters resistance from the people she interviews. "I get people that lie all the time," she said.


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