California falls short on COVID contact tracing amid warnings of new wave, audit says
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More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state auditor says California’s public health agency is doing just a so-so job on a key element of coronavirus control: finding out whether infected Californians had possibly spread the disease to someone else.