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I think I’m failing to understand something basic. What exactly is the endgame with this social distancing strategy? Doesn’t flattening the curve just mean moving the spike to later when you try to ease the mitigation measures?
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The idea is to get the number of cases down to where you can do really aggressive contact tracing, because there are few enough cases that you can allocate a lot of resources to each one. You also need rapid testing on the contacts.
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If the ship was ever there! I could never see how testing & contact tracing would suffice to contain a virus so fast & stealthy. Countries that claim this - Korea, Germany - probably have something else that explains their success. Maybe extra hospital capacity, just like Japan?
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We're not out of lockdown yet, so the ship is in port. We're reducing the number of cases now but before we can sail we need rapid point of care testing, central quarantine, universal masks, prophylactic drugs, and a massively accelerated vaccine program.
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