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City hospitals will lead efforts to test and trace for coronavirus
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
New York City’s public
hospitals will take the lead in
a city-wide effort to test and
trace New Yorkers with the
novel coronavirus, Mayor Bill
de Blasio said on May 8.
“We’re all trying to do
something that has never
been done before and this is
the team that knows how to
think that way, knows how to
build something and knows
how to make it real and practical
and fast and precise and
something that can reach all
across the fi ve boroughs,”
said de Blasio during his daily
novel coronavirus press conference.
“Disease detectives” from
the city’s Department of Mental
Health and Hygiene have
been in charge of tracking the
spread of the virus by tracing
all people that coronavirus
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positive New Yorkers have
come into contact with and
subsequently place them into
quarantine if necessary.
In May the city will deploy
1,000 what de Blasio referred
to as “public health foot soldiers”
to screen for the disease,
trace cases and place
those with the virus or potentially
infected New Yorkers
in isolation. By early June,
the number of corp members
is expected to reach 2,500,
de Blasio said, and could increase
depending on need.
The decision to transfer
the responsibility from the department,
which historically
tracks and traces infectious
diseases, to public hospitals
has raised concern among
city lawmakers thought.
“This plan raises a lot of
alarm bells. Contact tracing is
a core function of the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene,
and has been for years,
” said City Council Speaker
Corey Johnson in a statement.
“This is a distraction when we
need to be focused on battling
this virus. The New York City
Council will hold a hearing to
get to the bottom of this and
chart the best path forward.”
Testing for the virus will
be heavily increased as well.
Daily testing capacity in the
city hovers at around 14,000
tests a day, according to de
Blasio, but with the help of the
newly appointed corp members,
public hospitals are aiming
to up that number to 20,000
tests a day by May 25. According
to de Blasio, leaders of the
corp will push 50,000 tests a
day over the next few months
across 300 community testing
sites.
“When you get to the level
of 50,000 tests a day, 100,000
tests every two days and a million
over 20 days you can see
that we are now getting to the
kind of extraordinary level
that we need and we want to
keep building all the time,”
said de Blasio.
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