A leader of the city’s effort to track COVID-19 spread recently questioned the effectiveness of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $880 million test-and-trace program — and said more money needs to instead go to vaccinations, THE CITY has learned.
Dr. Marcelle Layton, who runs the bureau of communicable diseases for the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, offered her candid assessment in a Jan. 6 email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
She requested that grant requirements tying federal funds to test-and-trace be lifted — and that the money be pumped into the flagging vaccination effort. Her memo was copied to public health officials from several large cities around the country.
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