this work is important for maryama. i‘ve also seen the amount of businesses that are shut down in the past few weeks and months, so it has hurt a lot of people. a lot of them have lost loved ones, a lot of people have lost livelihoods. and is that part of what has motivated you to want to be a contact tracer? it is so important for it to actually be reduced, in terms of transmission. people need to know, like, what it is, how do we prevent it, otherwise it is just going to keep going on unchecked. "new york‘s contact tracing operation is only three weeks old, so are people co—ordinating? i asked the man in charge. we wanted this to be clearly new yorkers from our communities taking care of other new yorkers, and i believe that is why we have had an improvement since we‘ve started, in terms of new yorkers feeling comfortable to share their contacts and how we are already at a rate that i am proud of, which is that 86% of people that have finished their interviews have given us contacts. contact tracing has been used here