Contact Tracers hard at work (San Diego, Sacramento: trains, activities, health)

[Mahayana]

Keeping some government workers occupied:

https://www.scpr.org/news/2020/06/14...racers-librar/

[saibot]

So, according to the article, contact tracing involves questioning the person who has tested positive about the people they have recently been around, who would have to be people they know the names of, and getting in touch with those people. Is that all there is to it?

[Mahayana]

Originally Posted by saibot

So, according to the article, contact tracing involves questioning the person who has tested positive about the people they have recently been around, who would have to be people they know the names of, and getting in touch with those people. Is that all there is to it?

Good question! Is there follow up to see if any orders, or "suggestions" to follow were done? And if not done, what happens?

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Mahayana

Good question! Is there follow up to see if any orders, or "suggestions" to follow were done? And if not done, what happens?

Here you go:

https://covid19.ca.gov/contact-tracing/

[Exitus Acta Probat]

A&E needs to make a reality show out of this.

[looker009]

I would tell contact tracer where and with whom i been as none of his/her business and that would the end of that.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by looker009

I would tell contact tracer where and with whom i been as none of his/her business and that would the end of that.

No big surprise there

[shelato]

But I am still trying to figure out how effective the contact tracing process is in practice. I don't know if this story is representative or not.

"Health officials there discovered that a parishioner of Palermo Bible Family Church, who had attended a Mother’s Day service last month packed with more than 160 people, had tested positive for COVID-19.
But a team of six health workers dispatched to contact trace that group was only able to get in touch with about 15 percent of those who attended the service at Palermo, a Sacramento Bee review of county emails and interviews with officials showed. "

https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavi...243567307.html

If contract tracing is this ineffective because people don't want to cooperate, I wonder how long they can keep everything open?

[Mike930]

Originally Posted by shelato

But I am still trying to figure out how effective the contact tracing process is in practice. I don't know if this story is representative or not.

"Health officials there discovered that a parishioner of Palermo Bible Family Church, who had attended a Mother’s Day service last month packed with more than 160 people, had tested positive for COVID-19.
But a team of six health workers dispatched to contact trace that group was only able to get in touch with about 15 percent of those who attended the service at Palermo, a Sacramento Bee review of county emails and interviews with officials showed. "

https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavi...243567307.html

If contract tracing is this ineffective because people don't want to cooperate, I wonder how long they can keep everything open?

San Diego County is not asking people who test positive if they attended the protests. From what I’ve read, they aren’t the only agency that won’t ask about the protests.

If people aren’t being honest and the tracers are ignoring certain activities, there doesn’t seem to be much of a point to this.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by Mike930

San Diego County is not asking people who test positive if they attended the protests. From what I’ve read, they aren’t the only agency that won’t ask about the protests.

If people aren’t being honest and the tracers are ignoring certain activities, there doesn’t seem to be much of a point to this.

I can understand why they wouldn't ask about protests, there's no way to know who you came in contact with if you were part of a crowd. But knowing that makes the idea of contract tracing seem silly since it will ONLY work if everyone is limiting their contacts to a limited number of people.