Proving that there’s no situation in which thieves will not rear their greedy heads, agencies across the country are reporting that phone scammers are now pretending to be health department contact ...

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Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something. I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last ...