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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Can you explain why? Not sarcastic. Just hoping to understand.
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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so what's the harm in mass testing? do you see it as a misuse of resources?
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It is too inaccurate the false positive rate is so high that more than 50% and up to 90% of cases are false positives. Please see
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They are just delaying it. We are in the midst of a pandemic, but they are acting as it’s just a local outbreake. They will not be able to withstand the pressure from the surrounding world.
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Except it's worked in places like SK.
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How do you know that?
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