DC contact Trace Force will start showing up at your homes next month
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Anonymous
HIPAA isn't a catch-all. It only applies to providers of medical care (they aren't), and it doesn't prevent you from giving information about your self to whomever you chose. |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
| I will talk with them outside with a mask and at least six feet away. No one outside my family has been in our house since March. It’s disgusting in there. |
Anonymous
| Does somebody have a citation that shows tracers will be asking to enter homes or is this all conjecture? |
Anonymous
It all conjecture by the same “law and order” posters who are telling you all the cities are rioting. In general, contact tracing involves identifying people who have an infectious disease (cases) and people who they came in contact with (contacts) and working with them to interrupt disease spread. This includes asking people with COVID-19 to isolate and their contacts to quarantine at home voluntarily. Contact tracing for COVID-19 typically involves Interviewing people with COVID-19 to identify everyone they had close contact with during the time they may have been infectious Notifying contacts of their potential exposure Referring contacts for testing Monitoring contacts for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 Connecting contacts with services they might need during the self-quarantine period |
Anonymous
| It seems like a bad idea for them to be doing this in person as far as spreading the virus goes! |
Anonymous
| They are welcome to do whatever they need to do via phone. |
Anonymous
| I don't see a problem with this as long as they socially distance. |
Anonymous
So you are also against schools, bars, and restaurants opening, right? |
Anonymous
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66dJ0VQ66c4
They will be making distanced home visits wearing PPE to offer assistance for high risk (elderly, ill) people who have difficulty isolating safely. This could involve paying for a hotel room for those who need it. |
Anonymous
They were offering hotel rooms plus free food plus free medication delivery. I don't know if they still are |
Anonymous
A friend of mine had COVID and had to quarantine bc the roommate was high risk. A mutual friend said the city paid for it, and someone brought meals and checked in several times daily. |
Anonymous
“...We are adding complementary tools, such as home visits, to build on that success and to help complete interviews with cases and contacts and connect them to the services they need to safely isolate or quarantine,” said a D.C. Health Department Spokesperson when asked why the city is launching home visits now, some six months into the pandemic. Sounds like it’s really just for people who don’t respond to the phone call. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dcs-battle-to-wrangle-covid-19-community-spread-will-soon-include-home-visits |
Anonymous
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Yes, the home visits are only to follow up with people who aren't available by phone. The only reason that you would be contacted by the contact tracers is if someone has told them they had contact with you during their likely infectious window. The contact tracers will try to call you, discuss your situation and help you get tested and/or quarantine if applicable. A case manager can help put you in contact with health care or connect you with health care, child care or food assistance if needed.
The idea that some kind of Force is going to randomly show up at your house sounds like dystopian right wing propaganda. - someone who had to learn contact tracing as part of my regular job |
Anonymous
Sounds good to me. |