When contact tracers are prohibited from asking infected people if they were at certain events (protests, for example) then the whole idea of contact tracing is pointless.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-s-contact-tracers-have-been-told-not-to-ask-people-if-they-ve-attended-a-protest/ar-BB15w7qT


What’s the point of contact tracing if you can’t ask about THE most likely circumstance of infection?

It would be easier to stop the spread of we knew where the spread happened. Knowing where a civic case lives tells us little about where or how they caught the virus.

The msg from chairman McKay yesterday included a slide that said they had gone to herndon, springfield and Mount Vernon area with mobile medical teams. Thought that was interesting info. They were proud of their targeted efforts in harder hit areas, trying to stop the spread

A local news report said the CDC would conduct surveys door to door in some of the harder hit areas of Northern Virginia. Never saw any follow up reporting on what information collected was shared with the public health departments. The Fairfax County dashboard has the case numbers by zip code and it seems like more details have been released regarding the outbreaks at nursing homes and rehabs.

Anonymous wrote:the only information i have seen is the data by zip code


they were also supposed to publish data for nursing homes etc but i don't know where you would find that.

You can find on maryland gov - click on nursing home and then by county, then you will see names of nursing homes with cases / deaths. Only problem is they have deleting nursing homes once there isn’t any change . I don’t think that is fixed yet. . The data still resides on GIS Maryland system but that is tough to access

the only information i have seen is the data by zip code


they were also supposed to publish data for nursing homes etc but i don't know where you would find that.

Tracing is how countries like South Korea, Japan, and Germany have kept things under control. More data is a good thing.

Yes, I thought this was the whole point of contact tracing. If theres any way to share info to keep public informed and maintain privacy should be done.

It is so hard to gauge risk without further information. Are the cases in certain areas, due to certain events, etc?

Does anyone have information on where recent cases in Fairfax are coming from? I did get a little information during a virtual town hall last week with a couple of the school board members, who mentioned Baileys and Hybla Valley.

I'm not trying to cause a panic and/or demonize any groups/areas in any way. I just feel like it would be more helpful, especially at this stage with less than 50 new cases per day, to have more info in order to gauge risk and track outbreaks within the local community.