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Paterson Has COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says Paterson Has COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says
Paterson Has Covid-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says Paterson has something the U.S. can emulate: Its coronavirus contact tracing system. The city has been able to successfully trace approximately 90 percent of its more than 5,900 coronaviruses cases, Paterson health official Dr. Paul Persaud said in a recent New York Times article. "Twenty miles to the west of New York City, Paterson, a poor, largely nonwhite city of about 150,000, has been tracing the virus at a level that could be the envy of larger cities," the report says. Two dozen workers who had been trained last year by the Board of Health in communicable disease investigations…