MIAMI (AFP) - Florida has emerged as a major new epicentre of the US coronavirus battle, but two key weapons in the state's fight are misfiring badly: testing and contact tracing.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MIAMI - Florida has emerged as a major new epicentre of the US coronavirus battle, but two key weapons in the state's fight are misfiring badly: testing and contact tracing.
Right now one of every 50 people in Florida is infected with the virus, and as of Tuesday it has killed more than 6,000 people."What do I do with a patient that I test today, and the results come back in three, four, five, six days - when between the test and the time of a positive result they have been with a load of people?" asked Alberto Dominguez-Bali, a doctor at Hialeah Hospital in Miami.POOL TESTING With things so messy, people are pointing fingers searching for a culprit.
In the case of the journalist Garcia, for instance, none of the 14 people she told to get tested received a call from a contact tracer.Experts say it would need at least 6,300 for this state of 21 million people.
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