Sunday, April 5, 2020

One FPD memeber tested positive... 8 are under quarantine


 I'm surprised that the BOH or the Mayor didn't put this info out.

 From the MWDN:

One local police officer has tested positive for the coronavirus and there are eight in all under quarantine, Police Chief Steven Trask said on Saturday.
The Police Department has been understaffed for several months, but Trask said the department has been able to make up for the officers who are out.
“Staffing is OK at this point, we have reassigned some folks and our officers that are able to do so are stepping up and coming to work like the professionals that they are,” the chief said.
Officer Ryan Porter, president of the Framingham Police Officers Union, said the union and the department administration are working together to try to keep officers safe during the pandemic. Efforts include closing the lobby and taking as many reports as possible over the phone.
The department has also issued personal protective equipment to all officers, and dispatchers ask callers about potential symptoms or exposure to coronavirus so officers can take necessary precautions when they respond to emergency calls, Porter said.
Porter tried to get tested because he had contact with the officer who tested positive for the coronavirus. He tried to get tested at a first-responder site in Shrewsbury and by his doctor, but told he couldn’t get tested.
“It would be beneficial to all first responders to be able to get tested after contact with a known carrier; however, as it stands it is currently not possible due to testing constraints,” said Porter. “There is some fear among officers that the contact tracing process will not identify every point of contact. The administration is following the guidelines issued by the CDC and DPH, and informed all officers who they know had contact with the infected officer. However, patient privacy laws tie their hands when it comes to informing members of the department of a specific individual, so as officers, we are really relying on each other to help us all get through this time safely and with minimal impact. In my case, I wasn’t identified by contact tracing as a potential exposure, but because the officer who tested positive made me aware, I was able to take steps to ensure I was not spreading the disease.”
It is not known when all of the affected officers will return to duty.

11 Comments:

At April 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought all first responders could be tested? If not that is ridiculous. How do we limit exposure if we don’t keep who has been exposed?

 
At April 6, 2020 at 4:09 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw on the news yesterday there is a first responders only test site at foxboro stadium. Can’t they be tested there?

 
At April 6, 2020 at 4:50 PM , Blogger jim pillsbury said...

as far as I've seen... all of these test sites vet the patients for symptoms. If your not symptomatic... then you don't get tested. I also think, there are not enough test kits to go to everybody who should be tested.

My question is... since the union rep had contact with the positive tested officer... is he quarantined for 14 days?

 
At April 6, 2020 at 5:16 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why are we hearing this from you and not from the city? Where is the open communications around this issue?

 
At April 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyone inside or outside the department who had contact with this officer as well as anyone who had contact with those people should be in quarantine now. That is s lot of people. How do we find out if that has been done ?

 
At April 6, 2020 at 5:36 PM , Blogger jim pillsbury said...

the news from FPD was in the MWDN and on the other social media platforms, Patch and Source. I push this info out for those who don't get the paper. One might think the BOH would step in and order them to be isolated for 14 days.

We can't find out anything about the cops or it seems, anyone else, except for those brave enough to admit they have tested positive.

 
At April 6, 2020 at 5:39 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

But did the mayor share it in any way? This should have come from her in her reverse 9-1-1 call.

 
At April 8, 2020 at 12:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why are you talking about one cop and not about the other people in town who have tested positive? Was it a cashier at a grocery store or a pharmacy where I might have shopped? How about a delivery guy from the pizza place I ordered from last weekend, or maybe the cook at the taco place I got take out from? Resident of Framingham are far more likely to come in contact with one of these people than they are to come in contact with a cop. Ii get what you are saying Jim, but I think we are missing the point here. Why don't we know more about where those who have tested positive have been?

 
At April 8, 2020 at 1:34 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awfully quiet here Jim. Everything ok with you and your family?

 
At April 8, 2020 at 1:42 PM , Blogger jim pillsbury said...

I agree.. we should know. The officer who had contact with another officer who tested positive was never informed. Besides the women who admitted being tested positive on FB last week or so, we don't know any of the others who have tested positive. The cops are on the front lines of this war and should take every precaution when dealing with the public. I just saw one without a face mask on. Like the construction workers moving the church, not one of them had a mask on.
I'm just as baffled as anyone as to why we don't know more about the newest of cases.


Have a look at last nights CC meeting, the BOH is on at 106:00 to 108:45
http://207.172.210.8:5002/CablecastPublicSite/show/1951?channel=1

Then have a look at the last BOH meeting 43:33 to 47:00
http://207.172.210.8:5002/CablecastPublicSite/show/1947?channel=1

 
At April 8, 2020 at 1:46 PM , Blogger jim pillsbury said...

we are fine Thank you... plenty of supplies

planted some snap peas and lettuce yesterday

I would have never thought I would enjoy walking through the cemetery.

 

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