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One strategy, which wouldn't be applicable to most places in the United States right now, is to target a couple levels of potential contacts of every case. So
by matteotom 6y ago
One strategy, which wouldn't be applicable to most places in the United States right now, is to target a couple levels of potential contacts of every case. So when a person tests positive, you vaccinate all their contacts, and then all those people's contacts, and you can be pretty sure to have broken that line of transmission.
- interestica 6y agoThis is what I was looking for. That seems to make a lot of sense. > which wouldn't be applicable to most places in the United States right now Which begs the question: how do you delineate regions for strategies in a pandemic? Political/provincial/municipal borders are useless when you're talking about disease transmission. Does it then make sense to have different strategies for different areas (and to divide areas up based on completely different concepts -- like proximity to major highways, for instance).
- TylerE 6y agoThat's far too late. It takes weeks for the vaccine to become effective.