[Goose]

I’m a bit frustrated — SCC’s numbers are relatively much better than many places, which is a great testament to that office, the healthcare workers, the community and officials here. And yet as other places are easing Friday, SCC will not. We’re at 7 weeks and we’re approaching how long Wuhan was locked down (though theirs was obviously a more iron-fisted lockdown).

But in terms of what she plans to have in place “in weeks”, that sounds encouraging. Sigh. I can wait weeks more, especially if containment-level testing and tracing is in place by then. I do wish they’d open more parks and maybe some curbside service. More parks would actually decrease crowding.


https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/04/c...acrifices/

Q Has it been hard to coordinate with other Bay Area health officers?

A When we put in the first shelter-in-place in mid-March, we got ourselves on the same page. That, to be honest, seems harder and harder now, because then it was very clear that’s what was needed. And the issue about how do you reopen, where do you reopen, how fast do you go, that’s in some ways far, far more complex.

Q When do you expect contact tracing to get to the point that you’re confident of lifting restrictions?
A We are obviously doing part of that scope of work now, finalizing plans for rapid scaling, literally hundreds of people. We want to proceed gingerly, but we do want to be able to open things up. We cannot stay sheltered in place until a vaccine arrives.

Q How long until we reach that scale of contact tracing?


A Within weeks.

Why weeks? What was going on in the last 45 days? "finalizing plans for rapid scaling, literally hundreds of people." It takes this long to finalize plans, but you can execute the plans in weeks??????? Something isn't right here. I also really don't like the reference to testing being inadequate as being debilitating. A problem, yes, but a showstopper? They can't trace anyone, even those who did test positive? Again, doesn't make sense. The shoe-leather epidemiology needs to happen with or without testing. If you are tracing peoples contacts, yes, your testing needs increase. But they aren't doing that. "We do not have data. Since case counts started to accelerate in March, we have not been doing those case investigations of how might you have gotten this infection, which was the whole reason we put shelter-in-place into effect." I can understand being overwhelmed with the case load. But why stop doing what you can to at least run as many contacts to ground as possible? You don't need tests to quarantine probable spread. It is a force multiplier but not a necessity. Wuhan proved that.

[Goose]

I’m a bit frustrated — SCC’s numbers are relatively much better than many places, which is a great testament to that office, the healthcare workers, the community and officials here. And yet as other places are easing Friday, SCC will not. We’re at 7 weeks and we’re approaching how long Wuhan was locked down (though theirs was obviously a more iron-fisted lockdown).

But in terms of what she plans to have in place “in weeks”, that sounds encouraging. Sigh. I can wait weeks more, especially if containment-level testing and tracing is in place by then. I do wish they’d open more parks and maybe some curbside service. More parks would actually decrease crowding.


https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/04/c...acrifices/

Q Has it been hard to coordinate with other Bay Area health officers?

A When we put in the first shelter-in-place in mid-March, we got ourselves on the same page. That, to be honest, seems harder and harder now, because then it was very clear that’s what was needed. And the issue about how do you reopen, where do you reopen, how fast do you go, that’s in some ways far, far more complex.

Q When do you expect contact tracing to get to the point that you’re confident of lifting restrictions?
A We are obviously doing part of that scope of work now, finalizing plans for rapid scaling, literally hundreds of people. We want to proceed gingerly, but we do want to be able to open things up. We cannot stay sheltered in place until a vaccine arrives.

Q How long until we reach that scale of contact tracing?


A Within weeks.

Why weeks? What was going on in the last 45 days? "finalizing plans for rapid scaling, literally hundreds of people." It takes this long to finalize plans, but you can execute the plans in weeks??????? Something isn't right here. I also really don't like the reference to testing being inadequate as being debilitating. A problem, yes, but a showstopper? They can't trace anyone, even those who did test positive? Again, doesn't make sense. The shoe-leather epidemiology needs to happen with or without testing. If you are tracing peoples contacts, yes, your testing needs increase. But they aren't doing that. "We do not have data. Since case counts started to accelerate in March, we have not been doing those case investigations of how might you have gotten this infection, which was the whole reason we put shelter-in-place into effect." I can understand being overwhelmed with the case load. But why stop doing what you can to at least run as many contacts to ground as possible? You don't need tests to quarantine probable spread. It is a force multiplier but not a necessity. Wuhan proved that.