EditorialJennifer Guy Cook holds the headset she used as a contact tracer, at her home in Brighton, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, Madelyn Ho, Kristin Draucker and Jessica Ferretti rehearse Paul Taylor’s “Tracer,” in New York, May 23, 2022. (Yael Malka/The New York Times)
EditorialTaliban forces fired tracer rounds early Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan to celebrate their victory. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialGrant Real Bird, left, a contact tracer who grew up on the reservation, interviews, from left, Asia Kinney, Christine Kinney and Myrtis Norris on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona on July 7, 2020. (Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The New York Times)
EditorialNew York officials hired 3,000 people to help track COVID-19 contacts, part of the effort to speed the city’s recovery from the deadly outbreak. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)