With New York’s coronavirus cases slowing, the Cuomo administration is focusing on contact tracing as a key to preventing future waves of the pandemic — even offering to deploy the state’s contact tracers to other places
to places battling rising numbers of Covid-19 cases — even as the state faces compliance and other issues that have hampered its efforts to track and isolate the coronavirus.
New York is also in talks with officials from Houston and other cities that have become hot spots for the virus on how it can help with contact tracing, said Larry Schwartz, the former secretary to the governor and a member of Cuomo’s Covid-19 task force. During a press conference Monday, Cuomo told Bottoms that, “we’re here for you, the concept of ‘pay it forward.' Whatever we can do on any level, we have people who’ve been through this and actually know, and we stand ready.”
Overall, the state's contact tracers have had an 86 percent success rate in reaching and interviewing New Yorkers who have tested positive for coronavirus since the program went live in mid-May, Schwartz said. They have also had about an 81 percent success rate reaching all of those individuals’ contacts.
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