From your perspective what should the US be doing? It seems like another lockdown is out of the question and people are reluctant to wear masks. Is our situation here hopeless?
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Widespread temperature check drive throughs like
#korea did. Doesn’t have to be mandatory to be effective1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Temperature check will miss all of the asymptomatic cases, which seem to be the predominant route of transmission. Also, they will give false confidence to asymptomatic people which will further increase asymptomatic transmissibility. It’s a very bad idea.
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This is an exponential problem - and the key difficulty is that it spreads presymptotically. Earlier catch = exponential impact. Fever is arguably the most common symptom. We don’t need to catch every case to get R<1
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I’m not saying that temperature checking isn’t useful for detecting symptomatic cases. I’m saying that the false confidence it inspires in asymptomatic people, who are already the predominant route of transmission, will likely increase their R0. Need actual testing too.
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I mean see
#korea , how much of their success with the virus do you attribute to their temperature drive thrus? Maybe I’m overstating their importance but it’s hard to argue with results1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
They had PCR tests in drive-throughs too, and instituted mandatory mask wearing.
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Yah, PCR done after temp. Temp just to leverage PCR test capacity, much higher capacity for temp then narrow down to PCR
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Wait, is that true? I think that's a bad idea because it doesn't catch cases that don't present with fever. I think they were just able to get higher frequency temp checks.
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It’s speculation to say whether someone passing a temp check is gonna automatically be more reckless and assume they’re
#covid free. Ya’ll getting lost in the weeds here. Ppl who r willing to show up for t check can be educated that they may still carry covid2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Dude, you have no idea who you're talking to do you? We're not getting lost in the weeds the problem is tremendous we need a combined approach we can't use temp screen for PCR tests if a large fraction of those who have it and spread it do not present with the disease!
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