{"id":1953,"date":"2020-05-08T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2020-05-08T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:29:21","slug":"speaker-corey-johnson-statement-on-administrations-contract-tracing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/05\/08\/1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Corey Johnson Statement on Administration&#8217;s Contract Tracing Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson released the below statement in response to the de Blasio administration\u2019s plan to have NYC Health + Hospitals run the City&#8217;s contract tracing initiative. Contract tracing has for years been one of the core functions of the\u00a0Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plan raises a lot of alarm bells. Contact tracing is a core function of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and has been for years. This is a distraction when we need to be focused on battling this virus. The New York City Council will hold a hearing to get to the bottom of this and chart the best path forward,\u201d\u00a0said <strong>Council Speaker Corey Johnson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson released the below statement in response to the de Blasio administration\u2019s plan to have NYC Health + Hospitals run the City&#8217;s contract tracing initiative. Contract tracing has for years been one of the core functions of the\u00a0Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plan raises a lot of alarm bells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/05\/08\/1953\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}