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Massachusetts is trying to trace the contacts of people who have tested positive for th coronavirus. There's a problem: a lot of people are ignoring the calls, because a lot of people don't answer calls from phone numbers they don't know.
Those calls should be identified as from "MA COVID Team", but right now that only works if the recipient is paying for caller ID. They have arranged that all the contact tracing calls come from numbers with an 833 or 857 prefix, and they're asking people in Massachusetts to answer unknown-number calls while we're dealing with the pandemic.
As far as I know, right now this is something only Massachusetts is doing, so relevant for people who either live in Massachusetts, or have been here recently.
Those calls should be identified as from "MA COVID Team", but right now that only works if the recipient is paying for caller ID. They have arranged that all the contact tracing calls come from numbers with an 833 or 857 prefix, and they're asking people in Massachusetts to answer unknown-number calls while we're dealing with the pandemic.
As far as I know, right now this is something only Massachusetts is doing, so relevant for people who either live in Massachusetts, or have been here recently.