Contact tracing falling short in MD agency facilities, worker says

AFSCME Council 3 President Patrick Moran said that members of his union who work in the state’s detention facilities are “working in literal Petri dishes.” One of his members working at the Baltimore detention center said she wasn’t notified that she had come into contact with an infected individual five different times over an eight-hour shift in mid-April. “I really didn’t care how, I just know they should have told me,” she told Maryland Matters. “I shouldn’t have to overhear at the locker.” Moran said that there are “severe inadequacies” in the state’s contact tracing methods across all departments and that the government “need[s] to be collaborative” with their members when it comes to ironing out the details of the process. “Our folks are first responders,” he said.