Miami-Dade Mayor, Florida Governor can't agree on contact tracing

n a heated portion of a Tuesday press conference, Florida’s Governor and the Mayor of Miami-Dade were off message when it came to responsibility for contact tracing.

Each contended that the other one was responsible. Wednesday saw a continuation of the disjointed narrative.

On CNN Wednesday morning, Mayor Carlos Giménez said Gov. Ron DeSantis may need to get a tighter handle on virus response relative to the “bureaucracy” of Florida’s Department of Health.

“Contact tracing is the purview of the state, we were told that,” Giménez declaimed, contradicting DeSantis’ assertion that locals could do that.

“We offered to hire additional people for that purpose, and the state Department of Health down here have a certain bureaucracy they have to go through. But the contact tracing is actually the purview of the state,” the Mayor reaffirmed, before describing a pattern of locals offering help but the state being reluctant to work with them.



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