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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has a rather nice website to show the data of current cases, and goes so far as to show how close we are to the threshold for Phase 3.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/coronavirus-data

In recent days (maybe it has been there longer--I just didn't notice it), they added a metric "Percentage of new cases from quarantined contacts".  This means how many of the new positive cases were "close contacts" of someone they were already aware of, kind of a measure of contact tracing and a measure of how much of the community spread is from unknown sources. D.C.'s guideline are that this needs to be about 60% to move to Phase 3.

DC is at 3.1%

This is going to take a massive effort to get this number up to the level required for Phase 3. That or the Mayor is going to have to fudge and drop that from the consideration list.

(note: has anyone seen a similar number for MD or VA?)

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Thanks. That is useful information. I have not seen anything similar in MD.  However, I have posted previously expressing interest in having information obtained from contact tracing available through some public dashboard (not just in news reports).

I heard Joshua Sharfstein, former Secretary of the Dept. of Health in Maryland, now on the faculty at Hopkins saying the same thing this morning. The public is being given little or no information regarding information obtained through contact tracing.[/quote]

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