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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We either learn from the region which has handled this best, and had to deal with SARS and MERS before this, or we do not. The UK thought it knew better back in February, but it did not.
Agree we should learn from Sweden. To great people to follow for that are @RebeccaChandle1 and @HaraldofW.
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Ok so: 1. nearly 2,000 million people living virus free in multiple countries, with few deaths and decent GDP Or 2. 10 million people in a sparsely populated country with fairly small cities, many deaths and poor GDP And your instinct is that we should learn from 2 ?
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The overall population density of Sweden is a complete red herring -a function of the fact that no one lives in large parts of it. 85% of Swedes live in urban centres. Stockholm has a similar population density to Madrid and Malmo has a population density twice that of Rome.
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