![]() ![]() ![]() Testing, contact tracing, and safe, high-quality care are the core elements of the state’s continuously expanding response to COVID-19. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also has recently stated that as testing becomes more available, especially with the introduction of point-of-care rapid tests, much more testing and contact tracing should be done.Įxpanded testing and contact tracing will support the state’s ongoing efforts to expand bed capacity, increase supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for caregivers, and provide more ventilators. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has been advocating that all countries must “go on the offensive” against the novel coronavirus, by implementing stronger quarantine and isolation measures and broader testing with contact tracing.ĭr. In many states, even those with symptoms strongly suggestive of COVID-19 infection are not being tested. Along with effective isolation and quarantine measures, contact tracing has played an important role in highly successful control programs in Germany, The Republic of Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.īecause of severe shortages of COVID-19 tests in the U.S., large-scale contact tracing has not been possible as many states are having trouble testing anyone beyond hospitalized patients. Widespread testing and aggressive contact tracing have been key pillars of public health responses to infectious disease outbreaks for more than a century. Baker’s recent announcement of significantly increased capacity for COVID-19 testing across Massachusetts, through private laboratories and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The new Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) is designed to not just flatten the curve, but bend the curve downward to more rapidly reduce the number of cases in Massachusetts. Charlie Baker announced a new initiative on April 3 to accelerate the state’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing through a new collaboration with Boston-based global health nonprofit Partners In Health (PIH). Partners In Health Helping State Trace Contacts of COVID-19 Patients in Landmark Agreement with MA Gov’s Office ![]()
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