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The method of infection matters. Singapore and Taiwan have done amazingly well specifically because they enforce quarantine of infected individuals along with v
by ahelwer 7y ago
The method of infection matters. Singapore and Taiwan have done amazingly well specifically because they enforce quarantine of infected individuals along with various levels of testing to identify those individuals, for example people having their temperature checked outside public buildings.
- ignoramous 7y agoFair point. Does WHO reference any studies that prove asymptomatic folks don't infect others? If you happen to know, what explains the higher R0 and higher rate of infection world-wide? > ...for example people having their temperature checked outside public buildings. That isn't bullet-proof, tbh. India saw instances of people popping paracetamols to work around temperature checks.
- ahelwer 7y agoNothing is bulletproof, all we can do is take actions to reduce probability of transmission and the actions chosen should target the greatest drivers of transmission. I am not aware of any studies but on the other hand it would be incredibly easy for cases of asymptomatic spread to actually have been infected by a symptomatic person, in a chaotic environment it's difficult to get good data.