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Councilmember Levine urges neighbors to accept contact tracers, warns only one-third share contacts; city offers hotels for isolation
Summary
Councilmember Levine told CB2 the city has testing capacity but contact tracing is limited by public response; only about a third of people with positive tests are sharing contacts. Levine urged community board help to encourage cooperation and highlighted city-provided isolation hotels and support services.
Councilmember Levine, chairing the City Council health committee, briefed Manhattan Community Board 2 on the city’s testing and contact-tracing efforts and urged neighborhood leaders to encourage cooperation with tracers and to promote resources for isolation.
Levine said testing capacity has grown since spring and diagnostic testing is now widely available. He cautioned that testing and tracing programs rely…
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