Covid-19 Surge Response team sent to Missouri

During a press briefing by the White House Covid-19 Response Team on 1 July, the group’s coordinator Jeff Zients described a new program the federal government developed to help states and municipalities fight covid-19.

Groups of health experts, or Surge Response Teams, will provide additional testing support to bring the test positivity rate down. This expansion will allow for the increased “detection of the virus and allow public health authorities to do contact tracing to help contain outbreaks.”

The Surge Response Teams will also help treat those with covid-19 as hospital beds fill up and health care staff is stretched thin. This additional and targeted support helps to keep nurses, doctors, and other professionals free to treat non-covid patients, which should decrease excess death.

The teams will also “where needed and where requested to address gaps and augment local staff supporting vaccination, testing, and therapeutics work.” Increasing vaccination is one of the most critical responsibilities of the response teams as many are and will be sent to places where the vaccination rate is lower.

Lastly, these teams include CDC technical experts who will “help communities experiencing or at risk for becoming hotspots with containment, including assisting with epidemiology, data analysis, field investigations, and other public health response work.”

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    • Cleavon MD⚠️It's beginning. Patients in southwest are starting to be transferred to other hospitals, hundreds of miles away, as hospitals become filled with COVID patients. Only 38% of is fully vaccinated & infections are surging.

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      • Cleavon MD "I keep telling people, while we're busy fighting each other, this thing is picking us off one by one. It doesn't take sides. It has no political affiliations. It's not red or blue. It's a virus & if we don't protect ourselves, we're going to do a lot of damage to our community"


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