{"id":3389,"date":"2020-05-14T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-colleagues-introduce-legislation-for-a-national-contact-tracing-program-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:06:43","slug":"merkley-colleagues-introduce-legislation-for-a-national-contact-tracing-program-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-colleagues-introduce-legislation-for-a-national-contact-tracing-program-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley, colegas presentan legislaci\u00f3n para un programa nacional de rastreo de contactos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2013 El senador estadounidense Jeff Merkley de Oreg\u00f3n, junto con las senadoras estadounidenses Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) y Tina Smith (D-MN), y el congresista Andy Levin (D-MI-9), introdujeron una nueva legislaci\u00f3n que crear\u00eda una programa de rastreo de contactos para detener la propagaci\u00f3n de la enfermedad del coronavirus, y piden que el proyecto de ley se incluya en el pr\u00f3ximo paquete de respuesta a la pandemia.<\/p>\n<p>Los rastreadores de contactos trabajan con un paciente para identificar a todas las personas con las que ha estado en contacto, contactar a esas personas para informarles que han estado expuestas y ayudar a garantizar que puedan acceder a las pruebas y permanecer aisladas para evitar propagar la enfermedad a sus propios amigos y familiares. , compa\u00f1eros de trabajo y otros. Durante una audiencia en el Senado esta semana, el Dr. Anthony Fauci, el principal experto m\u00e9dico del Grupo de Trabajo sobre el Coronavirus de la Casa Blanca, confirm\u00f3 que si no contamos con contramedidas como el rastreo de contactos, habr\u00e1 una nueva ola de infecciones y muertes a medida que reabren los estados.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTodos queremos volver a nuestras vidas y negocios lo antes posible, pero si reabrimos sin un plan para contener este virus, provocar\u00e1 una segunda ola que costar\u00e1 miles de vidas estadounidenses m\u00e1s\u201d. <b>dijo Merkley. <\/b>\u201cSi queremos reactivar nuestra econom\u00eda y nuestra forma de vida, debemos implementar una estrategia integral a nivel nacional para realizar pruebas y rastrear contactos. Necesitamos un plan y lo necesitamos ahora\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>El rastreo de contactos es una herramienta central de salud p\u00fablica ampliamente utilizada para mitigar la propagaci\u00f3n de enfermedades infecciosas, pero los recortes en la salud p\u00fablica han costado 50,000 empleos de salud p\u00fablica desde la Gran Recesi\u00f3n, y una escasez cr\u00edtica de rastreadores ahora est\u00e1 poniendo vidas en riesgo.<\/p>\n<p>El <i>Ley del Cuerpo de Contenci\u00f3n del Coronavirus<\/i> responder\u00eda a esta crisis de la siguiente manera:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Exigir a los CDC que desarrollen una estrategia nacional de rastreo de contactos<\/b> dentro de los 21 d\u00edas en consulta con funcionarios de salud p\u00fablica estatales, locales y tribales, tribus indias y organizaciones tribales, y expertos con conocimiento o experiencia de campo sobre disparidades raciales y \u00e9tnicas en la salud p\u00fablica y comunidades hist\u00f3ricamente marginadas. El plan identificar\u00eda la cantidad de rastreadores de contactos, especialistas de apoyo e investigadores necesarios para llevar a cabo un rastreo de contactos culturalmente competente.<\/li>\n<li><b>Proporcionar $10 mil millones en financiaci\u00f3n<\/b> para estados y tribus<b> <\/b>contratar a m\u00e1s de 100\u00a0000 rastreadores de contactos, especialistas de apoyo e investigadores de casos, y ayudar a apuntalar los sistemas de salud p\u00fablica para un posible resurgimiento de COVID-19 en el oto\u00f1o.<\/li>\n<li><b>Protecci\u00f3n de la privacidad de los estadounidenses.<\/b> Se requerir\u00eda que los CDC incluyan en sus planes estrat\u00e9gicos para prevenir el mal uso de los datos de los pacientes; garantizar la eliminaci\u00f3n autom\u00e1tica de datos; minimizaci\u00f3n de datos, anonimizaci\u00f3n y seguridad; y prohibir el intercambio de datos con y dentro del gobierno federal con la excepci\u00f3n de los CDC y el Servicio de Salud Ind\u00edgena.<\/li>\n<li><b>Otorgando $500 millones a agencias de fuerza laboral estatales y tribales para <\/b>ayudar a contratar nuevos rastreadores de contactos, centr\u00e1ndose espec\u00edficamente en los estadounidenses que actualmente no tienen trabajo como resultado de la pandemia de COVID-19. <b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>La legislaci\u00f3n es la m\u00e1s reciente de una serie de pasos del Senador Merkley para acelerar y prepararse para una reapertura segura de la sociedad al impulsar las pruebas y el rastreo de contactos. Previamente, el Senador Merkley lider\u00f3 a sus colegas en&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-brown-colleagues-demand-trump-administration-plan-to-boost-contact-tracing-testing-efforts-2020\/\">presionando a la administraci\u00f3n Trump para que elabore, publique e implemente de inmediato un plan<\/a>&nbsp;eso incluye pruebas ampliadas para el coronavirus y rastreo de contactos mejorado, y ha sido franco en&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/2020\/05\/merkley-reopening-america-responsibly-requires-a-measure-twice-cut-once-approach-opinion.html\">presentando una visi\u00f3n<\/a>&nbsp;por los s\u00f3lidos esfuerzos de pruebas y rastreo de contactos en Oreg\u00f3n y en todo el pa\u00eds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tina Smith (D-MN), and Congressman Andy Levin (D-MI-9), introduced new legislation that would create a federal contact tracing program to halt the spread of the coronavirus disease, and are calling for the bill to be included in the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-health-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley, Colleagues Introduce Legislation for a National Contact Tracing Program - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-colleagues-introduce-legislation-for-a-national-contact-tracing-program-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley, Colleagues Introduce Legislation for a National Contact Tracing Program - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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