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THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
​How To Tell A Real COVID-19 Contact Tracer's Call From A Scammer's

​Beware of scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number.
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August 20, 20205:00 AM ET
State officials and federal agencies warn there's a new phone scam circulating: Callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers are trying to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting victims.
The grifters apparently are taking advantage of a genuine public health intervention that is crucial to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus: contact tracing.
In one scam, detailed in a warning from the Montana attorney general, fraudsters are telling their victims, "I'm calling from your local health department to let you know that you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19."
Then they move in for the kill, asking for payment information "before we continue."

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Don't fall for that, say public health advocates and officials. Legitimate contact tracers don't ask for payment or seek other financial information.
"That is absolutely not part of the process," says Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "No one should 




NEWS | AUGUST 12, 2020
New York Times: Health experts warn about perils of new virus data collection system An administration shift is putting a burden on hospitals and undercutting the integrity of data on the pandemic.


NEWS | AUGUST 11, 2020
The Wall Street Journal: COVID-19 data reporting system gets off to rocky startPublic release of hospital data about the coronavirus pandemic has slowed to a crawl, one month after the federal government ordered states to report it directly to the Department of Health and Human Services and bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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JOHN HOPKINS TESTING LINK

Coronavirus Map by JHU

• Global Confirmed24,565,091
• Global Deaths833,508
• U.S. Confirmed5,902,374
• U.S. Deaths181,435

TESTING Overview
​The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented public health and economic crises. In the coming weeks and months, viral tests for the presence of COVID-19 infection as well as serological tests for antibodies and potential immunity will be critical to measure the spread of the disease. Governments, businesses, and families will rely on data from these tests as they make decisions around the path forward. However, local testing data are not currently publicly available, and a comprehensive set of these data—paired with expert analysis and guidance—does not exist in one place. This initiative seeks to fill that gap.

Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19.
This website is a resource to help advance the understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.

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