Despite claims that Florida traces every case of Covid-19, a CNN investigation found that health authorities in Florida, now the nation's No. 1 hotspot for the virus, often fail to do contact tracing
When Shaila Rivera and her new husband returned home from their honeymoon and tested positive for Covid-19, they expected a phone call from their local health authorities in Florida asking for a list of people they'd been near so that contact tracing could begin.
The Riveras waited for that phone call. And waited. And waited. But the call never came. "I was shocked," said Rivera, a nurse who has since recovered from her bout with the virus. Florida set a record for most coronavirus cases in the US in a single day on Saturday, with a total of 11,458, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, and on Sunday, the state surpassed 200,000 Covid-19 cases.
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm urged Florida leaders to focus on other strategies, such as figuring out where the virus is spreading."For example, if young adults in bars are the issue, you've got to shut those bars down," said Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, which recently released a report on contact tracing.
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