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Really important to say Regional #PublicHealth Departments have been doing "reverse #contacttracing" since the beginning. It's not a new concept. It's a basic part of our approach to any infectious disease. However to do it properly takes lots of manpower hours ... https://twitter.com/GabrielScally/status/1360999625075884033
which for some bizarre incomprehensible reason we haven't been given. So yet another thing we are trained to do, years of experience but no staff. The thought that this can be done by inexperienced contact tracers in call centres across the country is daft!!! To illustrate ...
3 cases living eg in Donegal each interviewed by a different contact tracer one in Galway, one in Cork & one in Dublin. No local knowledge, no ability to connect the dots. However if you resourced local departments they'll probably already know there's something brewing ...
They have relationships with all kinds of people on the ground - GPs, PHNs, Gardai. They interview the 3 cases compare notes and bingo ... Well on the way to controlling the source of the infection. None of this is rocket science. Comprehensive #contacttracing, ...
,or "reverse contact tracing", needs to be done locally, on the ground by experienced staff. @WHO have been saying this from the beginning - resource local departments & give them autonomy & authority. Countries who have been successful have adopted this approach ...
It really is a bit of a no-brainer! So if we want to fully open our schools, businesses, health services, if #WeCanBeZero, if we want our lives back we 
must #resourcelocalpublichealth NOW
@MichealMartinTD @DonnellyStephen
must #resourcelocalpublichealth NOW @MichealMartinTD @DonnellyStephen