BREAKING: Niagara County Health Department Announces They Are Stopping Contact Tracing

by
March 23, 2020

Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter

http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9

 

Niagara County Health Director Daniel Stapleton.

 

Niagara County Health Department Announces They Are No Longer Contact Tracing Positive COVID-19 Individuals

By: Staff

The Niagara County Health Department announced this afternoon that three additional individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in the County. These three new positive cases bring the total number to twelve throughout Niagara County.

Many residents throughout Niagara County have expressed frustration with the Health Department for not sufficiently informing the public with regard to community contact that the infected individuals have had. Specifically, the frustration has stemmed from the fact that Erie County has done this in depth.

Stunningly, hidden in the release this afternoon, Niagara County Health Director Daniel Stapleton admitted that the department would, “no longer be doing full-scale community contact tracing as it has little to no clinical value at this point.”

Stapleton continued, stating, “as every health and government officials has repeatedly said, act is if the virus is everywhere because it probably is. A few months ago, we had a hepatitis outbreak at a local restaurant.  Contact tracing – letting people know if you ate this restaurant at this date and time please get tested – made sense.  It does not make sense in a pandemic and it’s taking time away from other critical functions.”

As of today, it appears Niagara County will no longer provide contact tracing to the public to alert residents to where these infected individuals have been.

 

**attorney advertising**
0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

CONTACT US

Have you ever aspired to write for the newspaper?
The Reporter is accepting submissions from our readers. News, opinion, sports, interesting hobbies... whatever you want to see published, with your byline on it. Send your copy to news1926@gmail.com. Please include your phone number. We reserve the right to exercise editorial control.

Archives

Contact Us

Email: news1926@gmail.com

Obituaries / In Memoriam: news1926@gmail.com

Publisher and Editor in Chief: Frank Parlato

Reporter Staff

Publisher and Editor in Chief: Frank Parlato

Executive Editor: Tony Farina

 

OWNED BY THE REPORTER INC.

Previous Story

Niagara County Confirms THREE New COVID-19 Cases in Lockport and Niagara Falls

Next Story

Niagara Falls Playgrounds Closed to Public in Bid to Reduce Community Spread of COVID-19

0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x