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South Bay mayors also pushing on SAnta Clara County — make testing and contact tracing happen already! If you need resources or manpower, let us know, but move!

“In a letter from the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, mayors and councilmembers of all 15 cities in the county requested “accelerated action to ramp up testing” from the county Board of Supervisors, Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody and County Executive Jeff Smith.

The mayors on the letter — including Sam Liccardo of San Jose, Rich Tran of Milpitas, and Larry Klein of Sunnyvale — offered their cities’ staff time to support the county and asked county officials to consider forming a testing “task force,” similar to one Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.

They also requested the county “make a comprehensive list of testing sites available to the public, including a description of the specific tests offered,” and “identify the number of persons sufficient to deploy ample contact-tracing teams for a safe reopening of the economy.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/c...n-testing/

That letter was from April.

Last week, SCC did pop up testing of over 2100 people in downtown Palo Alto.

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Much of the increase recently in SCC was driven by construction sites.  

Where can I find this information, thanks? Are the cases attributed to the workers' homes or to the construction sites?
Seems like this is very useful info to have--need to focus attention on those sites. An advantage of the phased reopening in SCC that was cited by Dr. Cody. (can gauge effect of each step before taking another)

Report on increase in Santa Clara County positives

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020...ase-uptick

[chrisk]

South Bay mayors also pushing on SAnta Clara County — make testing and contact tracing happen already! If you need resources or manpower, let us know, but move!

“In a letter from the Cities Association of Santa Clara County, mayors and councilmembers of all 15 cities in the county requested “accelerated action to ramp up testing” from the county Board of Supervisors, Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody and County Executive Jeff Smith.

The mayors on the letter — including Sam Liccardo of San Jose, Rich Tran of Milpitas, and Larry Klein of Sunnyvale — offered their cities’ staff time to support the county and asked county officials to consider forming a testing “task force,” similar to one Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.

They also requested the county “make a comprehensive list of testing sites available to the public, including a description of the specific tests offered,” and “identify the number of persons sufficient to deploy ample contact-tracing teams for a safe reopening of the economy.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/c...n-testing/

That letter was from April.

Last week, SCC did pop up testing of over 2100 people in downtown Palo Alto.

---

Much of the increase recently in SCC was driven by construction sites.  

Where can I find this information, thanks? Are the cases attributed to the workers' homes or to the construction sites?
Seems like this is very useful info to have--need to focus attention on those sites. An advantage of the phased reopening in SCC that was cited by Dr. Cody. (can gauge effect of each step before taking another)

Report on increase in Santa Clara County positives

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020...ase-uptick