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We don't need to. People could be given the option of testing, or of going into isolation for the incubation period. Several countries had great effect from o
by retrac 5y ago
We don't need to. People could be given the option of testing, or of going into isolation for the incubation period. Several countries had great effect from ordering a lockdown and testing the entire population over a day or two, releasing those who are negative from lockdown, and repeating this process multiple times in badly affected areas. Slovakia did this and it seems to have been extremely effective, though obviously not enough to eradicate it: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4761 https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4761
- nradov 5y agoIrrelevant. What appeared to work temporarily in Slovakia last year has no bearing on management of the more contagious Delta variant. Community transmission in most countries is so widespread now that there's simply no practical way to isolate so many people. It's just too late for that to work.
- retrac 5y agoI'm not in one of those countries. I'm in Canada and the medium-sized city I live in has a dozen cases a day, which is an increase over the last few months. The large majority have not contracted it here yet. We continue to use mass testing and partial restrictions to control the rates, along with vaccination. I have no idea if this is a winning proposition in the long run especially with the new contagious variants. But it does seem to work in terms of case numbers so far.