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San Mateo County raises concerns over COVID-19 delta variant
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San Mateo County raises concerns over COVID-19 Delta variant
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Looking back on the past year of dealing with the pandemic, Callagy said one lesson learned was the importance of having enough supplies such as personal protective equipment or PPE during an emergency. We thought certainly we had enough PPE but we could never imagine that we would go through it so quickly, and that we would then be in competition with the entire world for a limited supply of PPE that wasn t in this country, Callagy said. We never want to be in that position again.
Srija Srinivasan, Deputy Chief of San Mateo County Health, said that officials continue to monitor COVID-19 transmission through testing and contact tracing.
State and local health leaders say that over the past year they had some success with contact tracing â the process of notifying people who came in close contact with a positive COVID-19 case â but acknowledge that trouble with remote training, changing protocols and understaffing during surges of the disease hobbled the program.
San Mateo County public health leaders say while the winter surge of COVID-19 cases stretched their contact tracing capacity, the $19 million effort to find those exposed to the disease led to some success in stopping the spread of COVID-19.Â
According to County Health Deputy Chief Srija Srinivasan, the county ramped up its contact tracing program in the summer of 2020 while also building resources for those infected with the disease to make sure they had meals, a safe place to isolate and wages for missed work. Then the winter surge hit. The county struggled to meet demand, but she said when supply of contact tracers was adequate, the program