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I thought contact tracing was exactly how countries like South Korea kept their numbers so low?
by irrational 6y ago
I thought contact tracing was exactly how countries like South Korea kept their numbers so low?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's unclear. Rates in South Korea are rising, and they've generally used somewhat broad shutdowns in addition to contact tracing. (For example, when there were positive cases found in Seoul bars, they closed all the bars in the city for weeks.)
- on_and_off 6y agocontact tracing + massive testing. It is unclear to me why this wasn't doable in more countries but this has been one of the very few winning strategies. (not trying to be malicious here, I admit that I don't know the logistics of large scale testing and why it wasn't applicable to more countries).
- usaar333 6y agoWell, that and an actually effective isolation program.