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brooklynite

(93,854 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 11:33 PM Jun 2020

New York City tries to shift focus from lackluster contact tracing results

Source: Politico

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration rolled out its contact tracing program to great fanfare, promising it would help ensure New York City’s re-emergence from the crush of the coronavirus.

But things didn’t go as planned and after spending a week on the defensive City Hall is now seeking to shift the perception of a lackluster program cursed by a turf war between the mayor and his health department.

City officials this week began emphasizing different data points to present the program as a success, seeking external support from doctors and doing radio interviews to shape the narrative.

“Among our cases that complete our interview, meaning ones that we’ve asked about, whether they have contacts, 74 percent to date have shared contacts with us. In the last week alone, week three, 86 percent of our cases, people newly diagnosed with coronavirus that got through our interview gave us contacts — 86 percent,” Ted Long, the doctor overseeing the program, said during a press briefing this week.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/25/new-york-city-tries-to-shift-focus-from-lackluster-contact-tracing-results-1294870

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New York City tries to shift focus from lackluster contact tracing results (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2020 OP
Don't let me down, nyc! soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
we are trying to keep everything the same, open up like nothing happened scarytomcat Jun 2020 #2

scarytomcat

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2. we are trying to keep everything the same, open up like nothing happened
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 12:06 PM
Jun 2020

We need to start over and test & track. Every body needs to go home and start over. The White House has failed us and the states are going to have to do it themselves and may have to close down.
The world has changed the virus has shown us have vulnerable we are and capitalism is failing. Time to rethink everything. But I don't think the American people can do it without a media that gives them the facts and ideas to consider. We could really make a better world if we knew what we wanted. Democracy hangs in the balance.

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