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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what would you propose as an effective way of disease control?
It is critically important that we better protect the old and other high risk individuals until herd immunity is reached through a vaccine or natural infection among younger low-risk people.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/herd-immunity-is-still-key-in-the-fight-against-covid-19 …
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many thanks does your argument hold for countries with relatively low incidence? what is with long-Covid? also how can you effectively protect all high-risk individuals in a "fair"-manner - that is, not completely isolating them for months/years till the vaccine is available?
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To be ‘fair’ we should isolate everyone ?
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