MIDDLEBURG – Snyder County officials didn’t get the answers they were looking for in a conference all with Department of Health and PEMA officials on what they say is a lack of transparency with COVID-19. Snyder County Commissioner Chairman Joe Kantz Thursday’s conference call still brought no straight answers, and state officials on the call said they’ve ‘heard it before.’
Kantz says his biggest frustration is why county EMA directors statewide are not being used as contact tracers, despite being trained to do so. He says the state is outsourcing contact tracers to a company called ‘Insight Global,’ which is stationed in Atlanta, Georgia. Kantz says that company is the one who is hiring state residents to be contact tracers.
Kantz has also been frustrated people who test positive aren’t getting contacted by their physicians quickly enough. He says state officials did admit delays to getting tests results back to patients, and they are ‘working on it.’
All three commissioners were on the call today, along with county EMA Coordinator Derrick Shambach, according to Kantz.
