6/14/2023 0 Comments Adobe bridge club results![]() "The reason it is so critical is to be able to track the spread, how quickly it is spreading and which communities are most affected so as to be able to contain it," said Dr. Contact tracing the 'gold standard'Ĭontact tracing was a key component of the response to COVID-19 in South Korea and Singapore, which have avoided the community spread that has occurred in the United States and Europe. And others were sick and wondering if they were another case in the global pandemic. Some had secured the new drive-by COVID-19 test. All them said they had not been contacted by health officials. Many bridge players contacted by The Republic said they had no symptoms and were not concerned about being exposed to coronavirus. "You should be able to get that list and quickly reach out to those individuals and tell them to self-quarantine for both groups and ideally have them reach out to their friends and family who they have been in contact with since that time," Silvera said. Contact tracing for a public place like a mall would be much more difficult because there isn't a list of everyone who was there. "One of the big challenges, I would say, is that it can be pretty expensive, and so it is a lot of work to track down everyone and identify who they are."īut Silvera said the two Tucson bridge tournaments are examples of where contact tracing could take much less time because the exposure was at a specific place and time and it would be easy to get a list of everyone who attended. "It can actually be good in decreasing the spread of the disease especially in the early stages of an outbreak," said Stephanie Silvera, an epidemiologist and professor of public health at Montclair State University in New Jersey. The goal during the coronavirus outbreak is to ensure those who had contact with the infected person isolate themselves for 14 days to prevent further spread of the disease. ![]() "Contact tracing" is a monitoring process that involves identifying and following up with anyone who may have come in close contact with an infected person. "He said he had a conversation with Couchman, he interacted him with quite a bit," Abrahams said. He said the club does not have permission to release the name of the person, who developed symptoms in recent days, beginning with a high fever.ĭuring the tournaments, the individual had direct contact with Couchman, the bridge player who first tested positive for the virus. On Friday, Abrahams, the Adobe Bridge Club president, said a second person exposed to the virus during the two bridge events in March had tested positive for the new coronavirus. Four reporters obtained the rosters of who played in the ACBL and Adobe Bridge league games, figured out who was most likely to have been in contact with Couchman, and called more than 50 people who played in both of the bridge leagues. The Arizona Republic attempted to do what the county has not: contact the bridge players who may have come in contact with Couchman. ![]() What is clear is that Pima County isn't following up to find people who had contact with Couchman, even though many of the players are elderly and some have underlying medical conditions. “I certainly am concerned that she may have had pneumonia as a result of coronavirus," Abrahams said. “We have a responsibility to our bridge players in our club who have come in contact with someone who was infected,” Abrahams said.Ī larger, American Contract Bridge League tournament held March 2-8, and attended by more than 800 people, including Couchman, also notified participants that they may have been exposed.īut the health department apparently hasn't contacted players who attended that bridge tournament either, said event Chairman Steve Reynolds. A 79-year-old woman who played in the tournament and handled cards touched by Couchman was hospitalized with pnuemonia and died within a week of the tournament. Instead, bridge club leadership took it upon themselves to contact all 700 bridge players they know of in Tucson - nearly double the Adobe Bridge Club's membership - and notify them that they might have been exposed to coronavirus. “We're certainly capable of giving them a full list of names, addresses, phone numbers for all the people,” Abrahams said. Abrahams said the club has no idea how many people might be carrying the virus after coming in close contact with Couchman, whose COVID-19 test came back positive on March 16. ![]()
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