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COVID-19: Building 'Tracing Army' Of Thousands Will Be New Phase Of Pandemic Response COVID-19: Building 'Tracing Army' Of Thousands Will Be New Phase Of Pandemic Response
Covid-19: Building 'Tracing Army' Of Thousands Will Be New Phase Of Pandemic Response An “army” is coming to the tristate area to help combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has “volunteered to help develop” a program that will build a “tracing army” in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that will be tasked with tracing interactions by patients who test positive for COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. During his daily COVID-19 news briefing in Albany on Wednesday, April 22, Cuomo said that the three states will be teaming up to develop a group that will trace back the contacts of those infect…