Can you explain why? Not sarcastic. Just hoping to understand.
Contact tracing, testing and isolation is important against many infectious disease outbreaks, such as Ebola and post-vaccine measles. It is ineffective, naïve and counter-productive against COVID19, influenza, pre-vaccine measles, etc, and by definition, against any pandemic.
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Problems when one or more of: (1) disease is widely spread, (2) there are many mild or asymptomatic cases, (3) there is pre-symptomatic transmission, (4) we cannot identify the first index case in a given population, or how that person got infected.
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Never recommended by
@WHO for infectious respiratory diseasespic.twitter.com/BwNHTl5I7A
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@ThreeHeadsInc@mcdee_andy gee, it would appear that sky news are also sharing my 'covid denier'@WHO tables
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Governors keep saying "all the experts" say to test test test trace trace trace
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can you explain that more? people assume mass testing and contact tracing is the way to go, even when they no longer believe in lockdowns
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In my own amateurish reasoning, I thought tracing, testing and isolating were pretty useless once you had community spread. They are containment measures, but I guess could be used for mitigation up to a point (which we passed long ago)?
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Can anyone explain how Africa has been spared - and how they have such a high percentage with antibodies before the media started their fear-mongering smear?https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why …
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I’d like to remind you about the large region in Asia in red. 23% of the world’s population, nearly 2 billion people, and they have far fewer cases than a tiny country like the UK. Their economies are doing better, too. Why? Contact tracing, testing and isolation.pic.twitter.com/fs9TTyQnUG
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It's as facile as some of the pro-mask arguments. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.
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