I've seen some posts here that suggest to me contact tracing isn't really understood, or perhaps I have it wrong. In any case, it's clear the state is not doing well when it comes to contact tracing.
A contact tracer's job is to find out who a person with COVID-19 has come into contact with and then contact those people to let them know and suggest they isolate. Now, my guess is that's either an easy job or an extremely difficult one depending on each case. If someone with COVID only came into contact with a couple of people, then it's relatively easy. Then it could get more complicated if those two people, who the tracer has found and contacted, say they've been in contact with several other people. Then it becomes difficult. Then imagine someone with COVID who went to a party with dozens or hundreds of people. Now it becomes almost impossible for the tracker.
What's clear is that the number of tracers that are actually active is too few to make a difference. But I wouldn't put a further burden on them by having them track other county or state's numbers or having them involved in checking if people are quarantined. Surely that's someone else's job? If it isn't, then clearly the trackers' responsibilities are not almost impossible, but outright impossible. Add the fact that COVID tests can take a week to come back if you're deemed low priority (who makes that decision?) then it's no surprise the number of infections is increasing at the rate it is.
And don't get me started on Ige's indecisiveness. It's almost criminal in my opinion.
A contact tracer's job is to find out who a person with COVID-19 has come into contact with and then contact those people to let them know and suggest they isolate. Now, my guess is that's either an easy job or an extremely difficult one depending on each case. If someone with COVID only came into contact with a couple of people, then it's relatively easy. Then it could get more complicated if those two people, who the tracer has found and contacted, say they've been in contact with several other people. Then it becomes difficult. Then imagine someone with COVID who went to a party with dozens or hundreds of people. Now it becomes almost impossible for the tracker.
What's clear is that the number of tracers that are actually active is too few to make a difference. But I wouldn't put a further burden on them by having them track other county or state's numbers or having them involved in checking if people are quarantined. Surely that's someone else's job? If it isn't, then clearly the trackers' responsibilities are not almost impossible, but outright impossible. Add the fact that COVID tests can take a week to come back if you're deemed low priority (who makes that decision?) then it's no surprise the number of infections is increasing at the rate it is.
And don't get me started on Ige's indecisiveness. It's almost criminal in my opinion.