San Francisco's new contact tracing program could help California emerge from isolation

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https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/04/15/san-franciscos-new-contact-tracing-program-could-help-california-emerge-from-isolation-1276828

By VICTORIA COLLIVER 04/15/2020 09:01 PM EDT

OAKLAND — San Francisco is enlisting a cadre of outreach workers and a software company to track and trace Bay Area residents who have been exposed to the coronavirus as California enters the next phase of managing the pandemic.

The pilot program announced Wednesday could serve as a model for California and possibly the country as state leaders grapple with how to ease the stay-at-home orders that have hamstrung the economy. Gov. Gavin Newsom this week specifically said tracing the spread of Covid-19 will be crucial in allowing people to increase their movements.


“We are hopeful that this effort will not just be limited to San Francisco, that we could train hundreds if not thousands of workers across the region for a collaborative effort that will help us address the pandemic for the medium as well as perhaps the long-term,” said Grant Colfax, director of San Francisco’s public health department, during a briefing on Wednesday.

The program is essentially an expanded, high-tech version of contact tracing, which Colfax described as a bedrock of epidemiology. The city has developed it in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco and a Massachusetts software company.

[onecaliberal]

1. WHERE is the testing?!? We're not going anywhere without it,

[Igel]

4. It did fine in Taiwan and S. Korea

with limited testing.

[onecaliberal]

5. It did great in New York too, oh wait.

[intrepidity]

2. I just posted a thread describing how this might work

I hope they implement this sort of strategy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213294890

[Squinch]

3. Instituted on the 13th week of the epidemic because Donnie Bodybags

rejected the WHO tests in favor of tests he made money from.

[BigDemVoter]

6. PUSSY GRABBER CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM HIS FAVORITE CITY!

The Orange Syphilitic Sore can just swell up and pop for all I care. . . And he can bring that plastic piece of trash, Malaria, with him.

He wants to open up? Well, it looks like Pussy-Grabber has his work cut out for him, and he hasn't done a day of work in his entire life.