A long briefing on coronavirus, looking back and ahead, now underway. Will tweet highlights in this thread
Administration says city is approaching $1 billion in projected pandemic response context (annual budget is around $16 billion including federal funds)
Some new stats show challenges with contact tracing: City interviewed around 59% of infected residents within three days of positive test; around 37% provided contact information for their close contacts. The average number of close contacts reported was just 1
Haven't seen this stat before: City says small business revenue fell more than 50% between January and July
The District is going to start reporting new daily metrics next week:
-Test turnaround times
-Tests conducted per million
-% of new cases with completed contact tracing interviews within 3 days
-% of new cases who provide contact information for exposed people
The District is retiring the chart that tracks community spread (new cases outside institutional settings by onset date). This has attracted some of the most public scrutiny, and Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt suggests public has struggled to understand it
Instead of the community spread graph, the District will shift to more frequent reporting of the number of new cases per 100,000 people. That's emerged as the more widely used metric, including the one we track nationally and regionally washingtonpost.com/graphics/local…
District is planning to ramp up flu shot distributions this year, which would inform planning for covid-19 vaccine distribution. @bylenasun explained why a bad flu season can be disastrous for covid response washingtonpost.com/health/covid-f…
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