Since last week, the Minnesota Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been conducting home visits, conducting state-wide research to monitor the spread of COVID-19.
From September 14 to September 30, state/federal groups will “visit randomly chosen families at 180 default sites across Minnesota,” according to an announcement from the Department of Health. they will be asked to complete a questionnaire, while all members will be presented with a loose check for coronavirus or antibodies indicating that they have already had the virus.
Both are voluntary state epidemiologists, Dr. Ruth Lynfield encourages others to participate, as the effects will help fitness experts “refine our recommendations to better satisfy the desires of our Minnesota communities. “
The sites of the checkpoints were decided through census blocks, and the method of such random visits was used in reaction to physical fitness crises beyond the public, such as hurricanes and the 2015-2016 Zika outbreak, which eventually ignited less than 6,000. other people on the U. S. continent.
The coronavirus, on the other hand, has inflamed more than 90,000 people in Minnesota and is responsible for 1965 deaths and 7,163 hospitalizations as of Sunday.
The attempt to monitor its spread in communities led to a tense moment sometime last week, according to Pioneer Press. An email that the Minnesota Department of Public Safety sent to law enforcement was reprinted through at least two law enforcement agencies on social media accounts.
In addition to an explanation of what examiners were doing, the branch included this passage: “I’m sending this email because a team of MDH and CDC examiners recently confronted each other through an organization of armed citizens while in a neighborhood. “
A spokesperson for the fitness branch told PiPress that “the incident was unfortunate” and praised the team they faced for “leaving and informing the situation site exam coordinator. “The spokesman did not say when or where the confrontation took place.
A message from the Chaska Police Department, which wrote that “they had already won calls about it,” provoked negative reactions, including:
To date, there have been no incidents in which the coronavirus has been fought by shooting it.
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