{"id":30277,"date":"2020-07-19T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-covid-19-contact-tracing-will-ask-about-outdoor-dining-not-protests\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:44:00","slug":"nycs-covid-19-contact-tracing-will-ask-about-outdoor-dining-not-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-covid-19-contact-tracing-will-ask-about-outdoor-dining-not-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC\u2019s COVID-19 contact tracing will ask about outdoor dining, not protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC\u2019s COVID-19 contact tracing will ask about outdoor dining, not protests<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 19, 2020 |<\/span> 11:44am |<\/span> Updated July 19, 2020 | 11:50am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n The city\u2019s coronavirus tracing program will start asking people if they\u2019ve been at outdoor bars and restaurants to help understand the spike in cases among those between the ages of 20 and 29 \u2014 even though health officials never asked if people attended the George Floyd protests, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients are asked who they spent close time with social<\/a>ly. To ensure we\u2019re adapting our program to New Yorkers\u2019 changing routes, patients will explicitly be asked if they spent time with their close contact at a bar or restaurant as the city continues to reopen,\u201d said City Hall spokeswoman Avery Cohen said, while reaffirming they won\u2019t be asked about demonstrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are asked to name any gatherings they have attended to help identify cases related to specific events,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cRegarding bars and restaurants, we\u2019re adapting the program to match the increased mobility of New Yorkers, especially those in the younger age brackets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Dept. of Health found that the proportion of 20-somethings diagnosed with COVID-19 doubled during the second half of June. The new cases were less likely to live in the Bronx and more likely to reside in wealthier neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan including the Financial District and Greenwich Village, according to lab reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t see an uptick from the protests. They reached their peak over a month ago at this point,\u201d Cohen said when asked why the tracing corps wasn\u2019t tracking protest attendance.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week\u00a0Dr. Jay Varma, Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s senior adviser for public health, said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that we can see that directly links the protests to the rise that we\u2019re seeing right now among younger people.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, he admitted, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. S. Patrick Kachur, a professor at Columbia University\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health, defended the city\u2019s position about leaving demonstrations out of tracing questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsking about protests might alienate some people \u2014 and it might not generate that much useful information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would you do if knew someone was standing out in the Barclay\u2019s Center for hours? Would you ask literally everybody to come in? So, they took some reasonable steps \u2013 trying to ascertain this information could compromise our ability to establish the trust that we need,\u201d Kachur explained.<\/p>\n

But a former associate commissioner for the federal Food and Drug Administration slammed the app<\/a>roach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen President Trump says if we stop testing we\u2019ll have fewer cases, the Mayor calls out the hypocrisy,\u201d Peter Pitts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we can\u2019t explain the uptick in our fair city\u2019s COVID-19 infection rates among the 20-29 age group \u2014 and we aren\u2019t asking if they\u2019ve attended a Black Lives Matter protest, that\u2019s called hypocrisy too. Wake up, Your honor. Closing your eyes and covering your ears won\u2019t change the facts,\u201d Pitts said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jake Deutsch, co-founder of Cure Urgent Care that\u2019s tested over 5,000 patients for COVID-19, agreed that the tracing corps should ask about protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of contact tracing is you\u2019re trying to identify sources of where the infections are occurring, so I think you ask about gatherings whether it\u2019s bars, protests, schools, churches. The question shouldn\u2019t just stop with, \u2018Were you in a restaurant?\u2019 You\u2019d have to be much inclusive. And trying to predict that [bars are] the source of the problem I think that\u2019s a pretty impossible presumption given the fact that it\u2019s a highly contagious virus,\u201d Deutsch said.<\/p>\n

He believes the higher proportion of twenty-somethings testing positive for COVID-19 is due to increased testing for all New Yorkers \u2014 not just the elderly and vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen more young people be tested than we\u2019d seen for months ago for instance so I think you\u2019re going to see a spike when you see more testing,\u201d Deutsch said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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