In addition to what @prettypvalue said, there are ethical considerations with reporting granular neighborhood data that could cause a patient to be identified and ppl/neighborhoods becoming heavily stigmatized.
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I mean more generally, like 25% of our cases came from a grocery store, 5% were in-hospital transmission, X% we’re in-home from another family member, x% were from dentists or hair salons
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I’m learning to do contact tracing - at this point, if you were in contact with a proven case in SF, you would be likely notified by a contact tracer.
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Ooh tell us more!
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I'm curious about why that is. Is it a HIPPA-induced paralysis?
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I would guess that they don't have a mechanism to compile and report them data effectively.
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it's hard to do this without permanently stigmatizing businesses and kind of creates a really fucked up incentive scheme that can also lead to hiding cases - imagine, "oh they didn't get it at my nail salon, they got it somewhere else, how do YOU know, etc etc"
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with foodborne illnesses they can just shut down the restaurant in question for a couple days and it's usually possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that that was the offending restaurant
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My son got sick almost every time we walked into a Chuck E. Cheese’s. It was no fail until he turned 6. Then finally he could fight off that level of germs.
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