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I agree that this helps as an _additional_ measure, but certainly not as a replacement. But please see the problems with it!

• HSO 7y ago
  Nobody is talking about it as a "replacement" (for what anyway). It's viewed as part of the recipe that countries with SARS and/or MERS exposure learned that helped them to handle this situation better than others.
  • xenonite 7y ago
    On the contrary, many see this a possibility to reduce quarantine measures.
    • HSO 7y ago
      Quarantine is an integral part of the Taiwanese/Korean strategy
• rswail 7y ago
  South Korea managed to control the spread by endless testing and then contact tracing and notification and quarantine. They didn't lock down the cities. They did it and continue to do it without locking down. They are staying flat now because they continue to do that. This is a tool to help that second part of contact tracing. No one is saying it's a replacement for social distancing, but it enables us to relax it if there's a way to stop detected infections spreading.
  • vonmoltke 7y ago
    "Endless testing"? South Korea has done this thus far by testing less than 1% of their population: http://ncov.mohw.go.kr/en/ http://ncov.mohw.go.kr/en/
    • TuringTest 7y ago
      That's because they caught it early, and because they have the factories so they could ramp-up test production very fast to the level required to contain the spread. Those are not universal circumstances.