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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by adrianN on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:48AM (#22581605)
"For a while" is likely until we have a vaccine and produced enough of it to build up herd immunity. That probably takes a year or more.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by NullPrefix on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:16AM (#22581704)
Is it worse than catching the virus during your trip and bringing it to the family?
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by adrianN on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:43AM (#22581812)
No, but for some people it might be worse if you also take into account the probability of catching the virus at this stage. Even in the worst-affected areas at most single-digit percentages of the population have the virus.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by fuzzfactor on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:36PM (#22587014)
And quarantine restricts unexposed confinees to locations having these single-digit percentages which are overwhelmingly higher than the least-affected areas.

It is expected that even with thorough reliable testing and rapid clearance of the non-contagious from confinement, the spread among previously unexposed confinees would be vastly greater than among the unconfined, or further the _isolated clean_.

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