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Strained health agencies push do-it-yourself contact tracing

by Tammy Webber
| December 20, 2020 7:27 AM

When Eileen Carroll's daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, Rhode Island health officials called with the results, then told her to notify anyone her daughter might have been around. Contact tracers, she was told, were simply too overwhelmed to do it.

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