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SF public health official outlines contact tracing; mayor announces phased summer programs starting June 15
Summary
Dr. Darpan Sakhdev described San Francisco's contact tracing team of about 100 staff and free testing for symptomatic residents; Mayor London Breed and city agencies announced plans to allow summer programming and camps to resume under strict public-health guidance beginning June 15.
Dr. Darpan Sakhdev of the San Francisco Department of Public Health told viewers that the city's contact tracing and case investigation program began on March 5 and now employs nearly 100 staff to reach people diagnosed with COVID-19 and their contacts.
"We started case investigating and contact tracing on the first day that we had a case here in San Francisco," Sakhdev said. She described a process that includes calling people who test positive to collect exposure information, identify close contacts and connect cases and contacts to testing…
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