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It's not. The goal with more successful efforts like the one in Germany isn't just "flattening the curve", it's containment. Once the infection rate is low en
by newacct583 6y ago
It's not. The goal with more successful efforts like the one in Germany isn't just "flattening the curve", it's containment. Once the infection rate is low enough you have enough testing capacity to test everyone who gets sick, and all their contacts, and thus you can find and quarantine new outbreaks before they start spreading generally.
But this only works with a very low infection rate. Once your testing capacity (which is still, basically everywhere, much smaller than hospitals' ability to treat the same outbreak) is overwhelmed, you lose control and end up back where everyone else is.
People are watching this closely.
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- nomel 6y agoHow does this work with a significant percentage being asymptotic?
- NomDePlum 6y agoThat's were contact tracing and testing are key. If when a person is identified as having COVID you can identify who they have had contact with and test them you can reduce or ideally totally prevent onward infections. Effectively breaking the chain.
- newacct583 6y agoPrecisely because the asymptomatic cases get caught by being traced from the symptomatic people in their contacts!