In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020 photo, Meghan Peck works on contact tracing at the Florida Dept. of Health in Miami-Dade County, during the new coronavirus pandemic, in Doral, Fla. In state after state, the local health departments charged with doing the detective work of running down the contacts of coronavirus patients are falling well short of the number of people needed to do the job.
With 2.7 million residents and roughly 100 to 300 new COVID-19 cases a day, Miami-Dade County has 175 people tracking down people who were potentially exposed to the virus. Officials in Cook County, which has the highest number of cases in Illinois outside of Chicago, have said they need at least 200 additional contact tracers and as many as 400 to supplement the work of the 29 currently on staff. Illinois has maintained a statewide stay-at-home order since late March, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said the state needs a “massive statewide contact tracing operation.”
Contact tracing was one of the “core state preparedness responsibilities” outlined in the White House guidelines for reopening the country, but governors have been pressing ahead with lifting restrictions without having comprehensive programs in place. During congressional testimony this past week, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci,that parts of the U.S. might be easing restrictions too early without having the ability to respond effectively to an increase in cases with “good identification, isolation and contact tracing.”
_Christina “Tracing” = Left-wing police-state; Fascism.
_Christina People losing their shit over flu!🤦♂️ Calm down people!!🙄
_Christina I have applied over 32 times. I’m fully qualified-have heard nothing
_Christina Hiring stalkers. They are a special lot.
_Christina If you can’t track contacts of the virus then you need to carry on with lockdown, social distancing, etc.
_Christina It’s too late to bother tracing, waste of resources. Protect those who are vulnerable
_Christina Contact tracing has been a futile and costly effort for months now. This virus has been in the US since at least December and no amount of tracing will slow it at this point.
_Christina Such a perfect job. Knocking on the door of folks who might have covid. Am sure they'll have lots of takers. Ahuh.
_Christina DANGER-Do you really want BIG GOVT tracking you, do they need to know where you go with who you go with, how many hours are you home and not home- BEWARE of BIG GOVT, the only ones who likes this is Democrats
_Christina Enough already!!
_Christina It’s too late to contact trace effectively. Stop waisting money and time virtue signaling with masks, one time testing and contact tracing. Oh, and stay off the damn dry sand please. It’s our only chance at beating this thing
_Christina ...and so many of you see nothing wrong with the government being able to tell where you are at any point in time.... ...smh
_Christina Impossible.
_Christina I have a nice long water hose/garden nozzle in front of my place. They will enjoy a nice power wash when trespassing.
_Christina 'Those afflicted with the coronavirus have my sympathies,' Indie PA filmmaker Lance Weiler said. 'In a '94 head-on collision w/ a garbage truck, I went out the windshield after breaking my jaw on the steering wheel. Five days in intensive care, and at night, dreaming lucidly.'
_Christina Let the IRS do it, they will always find you.
_Christina We can trace Americans but can’t deport illegals?
_Christina South Korea showed us the way to do this months ago but Trump was busy 'being an optimist' and did nothing. Now everything has to be done locally and way too late.
_Christina I will not participate
_Christina Worlds top immunologist says no need for lockdown , once you've had cv19 you're IMMUNE FOR LIFE. Virus peaked 12 March. effective treatment for cv19 Hydroxychloroquine says no to mandatory vacancies. CV19 EXPERT WITNESS FOR FREE IN ANY LEGAL CASE
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