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States cut down on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts despite Delta variant surge

Public health investigators are struggling to keep up with new COVID-19 infections across the U.S. States are downsizing their contact tracing teams as new cases of the Delta variant stack up. Amanda Michelle Gomez, a reporter for Kaiser Health News, joined CBSN to discuss why local health and government leaders are shifting priorities away from contact tracing.
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