COVID Tracing in Hawaii: What is next or all for show

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Two ballrooms on the 4th floor of the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu are now converted into a control room for contact tracers.

Existing tracer training in conjunction with the UH John H. Burns School of Medicine now includes 50 Hawai‘i National Guard members who are working at HCC.  Another ballroom with work stations, phones, and computers is set up to accommodate an additional 50 personnel.

According to authorities, a significant hurdle for expanding the contact tracing team previously was the lack of physical space at DOH. 

This problem seems to be resolved, but the press-conference organized today to showcase the new set-up felt more like a staged event one would expect in the former East Germany.
Hundreds of workplaces with computers were showing a blue Microsoft Windows entry page. There was not one person actually working in the room the press conference was conducted.

The second ballroom had about 10 people including some National Guard members working. 3 or 4 were actually behind a desk actually showing a different picture than the blue window entry page.

In addition to all the blue computer screens, dozens of keyboards and video displays were stacked on some of the tables facing the wall.

There is in fact room for a lot more tracers at the Convention Center.

Dr. Anderson had told the Hawaiian People not too long ago the State has 105 active contract tracers was wrong.  The additional statement that the State can tap into 450 additional tracers. All of this was incorrect.

Today Dr. Anderson said such tracers couldn't be hired before, because of available space. This cannot be an argument any longer. At the same time, Anderson said once a destination is overwhelmed with tracing, such activity becomes mute anyway.
Two months ago Anderson thought the red line for tracing would be met with a daily increase of about 70 cases. Today Hawaii had more than 3 times this number.
There is no exact study on how many tracers are needed in the current environment with a record outbreak of COVID-19.

In today's press conference every journalist attended was allowed to ask multiple questions, except for Jurgen Steinmetz, who attended for eTurboNews | Hawaii News Online. The governor's press secretary Cindy McMillan lectured Juergen in saying. "I will not argue about this and if we have time I may re-consider." Obviously, after some of the 10 or so attending journalists asked up to 6 questions each, there was no time for Juergen. It means this story is again based on speculation and observation.
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