How do you suppress the second wave? Measures including expansion of new corona inspection system in NY

How do you suppress the second wave? New York State, USA Measures such as expansion of new corona inspection system May 16 5:47

As for how to prevent the spread of infection and the second wave while resuming economic activities, New York State is strengthening the medical system and is putting the early detection of infected people and containment by thorough investigation into the pillars of measures. However, each measure has many challenges.

New York is currently focusing on expanding its inspection system. According to a private research group, around 300,000 tests such as PCR are performed every day in the United States and nearly 40,000 in New York State to diagnose whether or not the patient is infected with the new coronavirus.

New York states that finding new infected people early and taking prompt measures is the basis of the strategy to prevent the spread of infection, so that not only private clinics but also pharmacies can be tested. Our policy is to create an environment in which anyone can be inspected at any time.

On the other hand, the problem is the accuracy of various tests, which is negative but can be diagnosed as positive and put pressure on the work of medical institutions, or positive but negative and give a false sense of security. There is concern that it may lead to the spread of infection.

For this reason, it is a thorough investigation of the infection status that we attach great importance together with the inspection. This investigation is called a "contact person investigation", and after investigating the past behavior of the newly found infected person for a certain period of time to find out who and where they were contacted, the possibility of infection of the contacted person After verification, it will lead to measures such as inspection and isolation.

However, this survey requires specialized educated and trained investigators, and research institutions and experts estimate that 200,000 to 300,000 researchers will be needed in the United States, but New York State It has been pointed out that the numbers in each province and each state are overwhelmingly insufficient.

For this reason, we are aiming to increase the number of staff to 17,000 in New York State, and we are also accelerating the training of researchers by utilizing the free course using the Internet developed by Johns Hopkins University.

In this course, in addition to having accurate knowledge of the new coronavirus, you will be able to learn in 5 hours the basics of the skills required to identify the contact with the infected person and the contact person and destination.

Also in the United States, development of technology to grasp trends and behavior history of infected people using smartphone applications etc. is progressing, and Apple and Google will start developing technology for contact investigation jointly last month. Announced.

Furthermore, research institutes such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are also working on the development of apps and research platforms, but regarding such technology, privacy issues such as who manages data related to personal information have been pointed out.

Florists also reopened in California Sold as a measure to prevent infection

Even after restarting business at many stores, we are still worried that we will not be able to return as many customers as before.

Starting this month in Western California, in addition to supermarkets and pharmacies, sales of flower shops and bookstores have been approved.

At the flower shop in Los Angeles, which opened for the first time in about two months, there were almost no customers visiting the shop on the day I visited for coverage.

In order to prevent many people from gathering inside the store, it is necessary to receive orders by email or phone in advance and deliver at the store or deliver it at the store so that many people do not gather in the store. I will.

Clover Chadwick, who runs the shop, said, “It is difficult to take measures against social distances. At the time of delivery, I put flowers in front of the delivery destination and go home” ..

In addition, at this store, there were large customers such as restaurants and event venues in the city before the restriction of going out was taken, but these customers themselves are limited in business and events The situation was completely different from the one-tenth of the previous sales, "he said.