Miami Herald: As 'COVID fatigue' sets in, testing is down and few cooperate with contact tracing

[TomCADem]

When you have the President and Governors embracing the idea that if you reduce testing, you reduce cases, you end up having a slow moving train wreck of a pandemic response.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article245291420.html

When South Florida’s summer COVID-19 surge hit Miami-Dade County with full force in July, public officials had little capacity to track down the contacts of the thousands of new infections reported every day and stop the spread.

But by August, the health department had built up the county’s contact tracing workforce and shifted its testing strategy to dramatically cut turnaround times. Now there’s another problem: Many of the people contact tracers try to reach won’t respond to questions that could help cut infections in Miami-Dade.

As of mid-August, about 14,200 people cooperated with contact tracers, according to a health department report. But nearly double that number — about 27,150 — chose not to participate or could not be reached. It is not clear whether those were people infected with COVID or their contacts or both.

At the same time, fewer people are being tested for the disease despite state-run testing sites having more capacity than ever. Testing statewide has dropped about 31% from an average of 93,600 a day during the last week of July to an average of 64,100 last week.

[abqtommy]

1. People who take this virus seriously and refuse to be fatigued or complacent are more

likely to survive!

[Iliyah]

2. Correct . . .

By the time elections come around shithole's red states will be mostly infected and in chaos.