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Schatz Urges Ige To Maintain Expanded COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program, Calls For Plan To Continue Funding, Operating Program

Press Release

Date: Dec. 1, 2020
Location: Honolulu, HI
Issues: Health and Health Care

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai"i) today called on Governor David Ige to maintain Hawai"i's expanded COVID-19 contact tracing program. With some federal funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act set to expire at the end of the year, Schatz urged Ige to utilize other sources of funding to ensure the contact tracing program remains fully operational.

"I am alarmed that there does not seem to be a plan yet for how to fully fund the contact tracing program after December 30. I urge you to maintain the expanded contact tracing program beyond the end of the year and to utilize all available resources to do so. Now is not the time to let our foot off the pedal--we must do all we can to keep the number of new cases low and protect the health of the residents of Hawai"i," Senator Schatz wrote in a letter to the governor.


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