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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 d
by 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 agoThat'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.