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San Francisco health officials outline Ebola preparedness, stress contact tracing and hospital readiness
Summary
San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) gave commissioners a communicable-disease briefing focused on Ebola, describing how cases spread, local readiness steps and the strain of contact tracing; DPH said there were no local Ebola cases and that hospitals have isolation capacity.
San Francisco health officials on Wednesday presented an Ebola preparedness briefing that emphasized intensive contact tracing, hospital infection controls and coordination with state and federal partners.
"We don't have an Ebola case here in San Francisco at this time," Dr. Cora Hoover, director of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, told the Health Commission. She outlined communications work (provider advisories, fact sheets and a media hotline), outreach to hospitals and first responders,…
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