Mayor Dan Gelber Criticized Florida Governor for Contact Tracing Issues, Calling It ‘Discouraging’

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GELBER: "You know, and it’s really discouraging, because when you shelter in place, you lose an incredible amount of your economy, people, you know, lose their jobs. And the hope is that when you come out of it, you’re going to be able to control the surge of the virus. That’s why the CDC says that contact tracing is, you know, a core state responsibility. And in fact, in Florida, ironically, the county health departments aren’t the counties or the cities. They work for the state of Florida. They work for the governor. So, this was right in the responsibility of the governor and the surgeon general. And we watched our numbers just skyrocket. And we’ve learned that we didn’t have enough people at all to sort of even call people up and say, 'You need to quarantine. Who else were you with?' and do all the things that a contact tracer is supposed to do. And then they’re doing that in other states."