First of all, I just have a few questions in regards to contact tracing.

One of your former predecessors, Tom Frieden, has suggested a workforce of at least 300,000

people in the country to effectively contact trace.

I'd like you to comment on that.

Back in June, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr.

Robert Redfield testified before Congress.

You know, I've spoken to Tom about this.

I know his number estimated 300,000.

I mentioned that I've estimated between 30 and 100,000.

Since April, public health experts have been calling for the government to hire hundreds

of thousands of workers and expand our contact tracing workforce.

Regardless of the exact number of contact tracers this country needs right now, the general

consensus is, they're still not enough.

So in today's episode, we're going to look at contact tracing.

What is it?

What's the current status in the United States?

And what are the challenges that still remain?

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

Hello, this is Alexander calling from the Massachusetts COVID-19 Collaborative.

How are you doing?

Alexander Mieman is a contact tracer in Massachusetts.

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