If gov't truly wanted to follow 'shielding' of vulnerable groups, LSHTM/Oxford study identifies 'being male' as key risk factor for death. Anyone up for strategy where men stay at home & women take over/circulate freely until a vaccine or another solution?http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-05-07-risk-factors-covid-19-death-revealed-world-s-largest-analysis-patient-records-date …
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Keep digging. Sounds like something that works on paper but not in real world?
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If you were in your seventies with COPD, what would you do, Devi? Accept seclusion or go out to die?
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Surely for some the answer might well be "go out". But I'm not sure individual behaviour by the "shielded" is all the point. If you have high community transmission, there's a decent chance that among the care givers and food bringers someone will be infected.
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The concept of "shielding" I think has gained prominence part of the bogus "herd immunity" narrative, where it has been presented as a spurious panacea. It also set up a false dichotomy that inhibited TTI.
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Even in its own terms, the dichotomy was wrong: you can identify the infectious more accurately than the vulnerable; the identified infectious population grows geometrically, the vulnerable linearly, with investment of resource; etc.
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I've always wondered if there was any scientific basis for this bizarre idea since it aired in mid March.
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I think it’s very harmful especially if you have only 6 months immunity. without a vaccine and by letting the virus stay permantely with outbreaks flaring up constantly as no permanent immunity would this not mean there’s a permanent threat to the vulnerable & elderly?
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Really looking forward to this, especially wrt ethics and acceptability and how they balance with effectiveness. Thank you

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Here's a thought-provoking paper on the ethics of
#segmentandshield by@gangulimitra and colleagues https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-104
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