COVID Response. A State’s Reopening Plan with Surveillance

Where: Connecticut

What surveillance is proposed?

• medical surveillance proposed by a report by medical experts affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute
  • + “voluntary” quarantines for those who test positive
  • enforcement via mobile phone apps
  • regional approach to reopening in coordination with New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Pennsylvania
  • contact tracing

What controls is the state looking at?

• leveling of the spread of the virus
• hospital capacity

How much spending for the state to do massive contact tracing?

• $44 million
• hiring 1,000 people to track the contacts of people who are infected

Hartford Courant via Governing | Lamont’s Plan to Reopen Economy: Testing and Tracking