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That doesn't detail how many are on that team, any estimate of how many cases per day they can track, etc.


It sounds like the cities want to help with this part of the next phase and are looking to see what is there, and presumably where they can assist.

That makes excellent sense.  With help from the cities for the legwork & the state for the coordination, and both for financial support, tracking can be more extensive than without.

Actually, to me it sounds more like the cities are very unhappy with the lack of concrete information they are getting from the county. The statement by Dr. Smith that 600 people would be required was apparently news to the cities. The first public release of that number was at that time. Thus my comment about nothing having been done until that point. Dr. Smith also used the future tense. From that fact one could assume that none of these people are yet on staff and none of them are yet trained. What did they do for the past 45 days? Argue about was it 599 or 600? Why aren't at least 400 of those people already trained/being trained? There could be good answers to those questions, but until yesterday we didn't even know they needed 600 people.
Since no hiring plans, performance goals or schedules of any kind have been released publicly, it is unclear they have any plan at all, besides platitudes. At this point in the epidemic, that worries me. It is apparently worrying the mayors as well. I am sure the cities do want to help, but they need to know what the plan is. The fact they don't know it 45 days into the mission is very disconcerting.

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That doesn't detail how many are on that team, any estimate of how many cases per day they can track, etc.


It sounds like the cities want to help with this part of the next phase and are looking to see what is there, and presumably where they can assist.

That makes excellent sense.  With help from the cities for the legwork & the state for the coordination, and both for financial support, tracking can be more extensive than without.

Actually, to me it sounds more like the cities are very unhappy with the lack of concrete information they are getting from the county. The statement by Dr. Smith that 600 people would be required was apparently news to the cities. The first public release of that number was at that time. Thus my comment about nothing having been done until that point. Dr. Smith also used the future tense. From that fact one could assume that none of these people are yet on staff and none of them are yet trained. What did they do for the past 45 days? Argue about was it 599 or 600? Why aren't at least 400 of those people already trained/being trained? There could be good answers to those questions, but until yesterday we didn't even know they needed 600 people.
Since no hiring plans, performance goals or schedules of any kind have been released publicly, it is unclear they have any plan at all, besides platitudes. At this point in the epidemic, that worries me. It is apparently worrying the mayors as well. I am sure the cities do want to help, but they need to know what the plan is. The fact they don't know it 45 days into the mission is very disconcerting.