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Patchwork approach to contact tracing hampers national recovery

A patchwork approach to contact tracing across state health departments is making it increasingly difficult to know where people are getting exposed to COVID-19.

While some states like Louisiana and Washington state publicly track detailed data related to COVID-19 cases in bars, camps, daycares, churches, worksites and restaurants, most states do not, creating obstacles to preventing future cases.

The extensive spread of the virus, combined with the country's 50-state approach to pandemic response, has led to a dearth of information about where transmissions are occurring. Those shortcomings are in turn complicating efforts to safely open the economy and to understand the risks associated with certain activities and settings.

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8.25.2020 RAC Bay County Community Work Group Leadership Meeting

Here is the link to the 8.25.2020 RAC Bay County Community Situation Reportpresented at the meeting. This wilm also be available on the dashboard in the upper right corner above the Facebook feed.

The numbers of cases have been going down. The positivity rate varies greatly from day to day, but was 17% on August 25th, which is well above the state positivity rate. 

Adam Johnson (FDOH) presented the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response. Here is the news release about the assessment, with a summary of results.  

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