San Francisco Health Officials, UCSF Launch Digital Coronavirus Contact Tracking System
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco health officials have unveiled an innovative high-tech system for tracking residents who have had contact with someone infected with COVID-19 to fulfill one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s key requirements for lifting the shelter in place order in the coming months.
On Tuesday, Newsom laid out his roadmap toward lifting the current lockdown order and a key tenet of the plan was that a tracking system for the virus be well established.
“We are committed to doing everything we can to slow the spread of COVID-19 in San Francisco,” said Mayor London Breed in a press release. “At the same time, we need to look ahead and plan for how we will eventually go about easing the stay home order while continuing to protect public health. When the time comes to make changes to the order, we need this contact tracing program in place so that we’re equipped to respond to new cases and keep the virus from spreading out of control.”
The new program is a partnership between San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, UCSF, and DIMAGI, a software company that has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to digitize a workflow to support contact tracing and monitoring of people who are potentially infected with COVID-19.
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