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You probably know now that there are many places around the United States where you can beSentenced to a fine not to wear mask in public or forDo not maintain the social distance. But did you know that there can also be a financial cost not to provide information to contract tracers aimed at following new infections? In Rockland County, New York, eight partymen discovered that when they refused to answer contact tracer questions on the gathering they attended, which was a superspreader event.

In a comparison of July 2 on CNN, the county Commissioner of Health,Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, Said that the reluctance of individualsPrevented the investigation of his department To the extent that the coronavirus had - and could still potentially spread because of the game, which has been hosted by a person who already had symptoms at the time. Eight party participants so far have been positive tested.

"There are those of the community for several months and they are really tired, they are fed up, and they want to be outside. They do not want to have to answer the government, to any health manager" , said Ruppert. "And some people simply do not understand the importance of that, which, of course, with the education we are trying to explain and that people understand the reason we need to know who are Their contacts, where they were, where they were, when it was, so that we can continue to reduce the number of cases in New York. "

Contact plotters have been essential to slow spread in countries, such asNew Zealand, who have almost completely wiped coronavirus. Their mandate is to determine who an infected person has come into contact with to be able to self-isolate and / or be tested themselves. Contact tracing decreases the amount of people who unconsciously spread the disease, but it requires citizens to give up personal information about where they were and they have seen.

In the case of this part of Rockland County, contacts were chosen when the local government published sub-chiefs for their cooperation. Each came with a fine of up to $ 2,000 a day.

"I have eight answers," said Ruppert, when asked if the Deputy Heads were effective.

"It's amazing how much some people have intelligently," Rockland County ExecutiveDay CNN says. "Everyone complies and helping us, that's all we are trying to take place, is to work with us. We are not trying to be punitive here."

Addressing Politico, Director of the Public Health and Policy Law Center of Arizona State UniversityJames Hodge stated that Rockland County officials werewell in their rights to float finesand this first amendment the rights of the amendment D0 do not attigure public health and the well-being of others.

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"What you have here is a legitimate use of public health emergency powers. If you do not want to participate in contact traceability, you do not have to," Hodge said. "But resistant to simple efforts ... can direct the authorities to use their sub-chief powers because they had it."

While this efforts by New York County to find a cluster were effective, it is quite possible that similar legal actions can take place in other parts of the US because communities have trouble fighting. With COVID-19. And for more errors, we do,This error is what caused Covid-19 on the overvoltage of the United States,.