08-11-2020, 11:13 PM
Read it and weep.
The complete and utter failure of the Hawaii contact tracing program. We were promised a functioning department during the COVID-19 emergency, and received the usual:
For over a month, state Epidemiologist Sarah Park and Health Director Bruce Anderson have said in press conferences and before the Senate COVID-19 response committee that the department employs over 100 contact tracers and touted the training of up to 450 others.
However, several senators paid a surprise visit to the department last week and described a bleak scene among contact tracers.
“It just seemed like they were bootstrapping that whole operation,” said Windward Oahu Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole.
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/h...t#stream/0
The complete and utter failure of the Hawaii contact tracing program. We were promised a functioning department during the COVID-19 emergency, and received the usual:
For over a month, state Epidemiologist Sarah Park and Health Director Bruce Anderson have said in press conferences and before the Senate COVID-19 response committee that the department employs over 100 contact tracers and touted the training of up to 450 others.
However, several senators paid a surprise visit to the department last week and described a bleak scene among contact tracers.
“It just seemed like they were bootstrapping that whole operation,” said Windward Oahu Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole.
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/h...t#stream/0