To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Participation Agreement #28-941-2 with California Department of Public Health
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Participation Agreement #28-941-2 with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), to participate in the California Public Health Laboratories COVID-19 Initiative to provide molecular analysis complementary to current diagnostic and surveillance testing performed in Contra Costa County, for the period December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This is a non-financial Agreement.
BACKGROUND:
This Agreement allows the Contra Costa Public Health Department to conduct COVID-19 related investigations and surveillance in partnership with CDPH and other partnering counties including enhanced laboratory testing for outbreak investigations, contact tracing, determining potential reinfections, assessment of control measures in high-risk settings and high-risk populations, coordinating with connected jurisdictions and healthcare systems to improve understanding of transmission among communities, and to better inform public health action to Health and Safety Code section 100325.
On November 2, 2021, the Board of Supervisors approved Participation Agreement #28-941-1 with CDPH to participate in the California Public Health Laboratories COVID-19 Initiative to provide molecular analysis complementary to current diagnostic and surveillance testing performed in Contra Costa County, for the period from December 1, 2021 through November 30, 2024.
Approval of Participation Agreement #28-941-2 will allow the County to continue participating in the California Public Health Laboratories COVID-19 Initiative to provide molecular analysis complementary to current diagnostic and surveillance testing, through N...
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