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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]Andy Slavitt, former director of Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama administration, and Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration chief for President Trump, say that Congress needs to devote funding to help states track down people who have been exposed to the coronavirus, and to offer resources to infected and exposed individuals who wish to self-isolate.[/i]
-https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845165404/ex-officials-call-for-46-billion-for-tracing-isolating-in-next-coronavirus-packa

Their proposal, which has support from former govies on both sides, includes a provision for using hotels to give people space to self-isolate:

[i]The Trump administration is actively trying to reopen the economy. To do so safely, the authors say Congress needs to spend $46.5 billion on three public health needs:

$12 billion to help expand the contact tracing workforce. The officials estimate the workforce needs to increase by 180,000 until a vaccine is on the market.

$4.5 billion to use vacant hotels so that infected and exposed people without a place to self-isolate have somewhere they can go so they don't spread the virus.

$30 billion to offer 18 months of income support — a per-person stipend of $50 a day, like jury duty — for those voluntarily self-isolating.[/i][/quote]

I wish Bill Gates were the president now. We need presidential leadership on things that matter - testing, contact tracing, and system for quarantines.[/quote]

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