If New Yorkers are concerned about how their information will be used in contact tracing, they will hesitate to participate. Gov. Cuomo must sign the Contact Tracing Confidentiality Act, which would guarantee that ICE and police do not have access to the collected information.
New York City is hiring 1,000 contact tracers with an immediate start date. For contact tracing to really work, we all need to understand what it means.
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