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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by Taek on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:27PM (#22586449)
It's estimated that as many as 20% of the infected are asymptomatic, including no fever. A lot of your suggestions would fail to contain the virus.

I do believe that widespread testing and tracing would be effective. Given that we don't yet have access to the scale of testing that is required to maintain public health, I think an immediate quarantine is the only way to save lives.

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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by treis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:03PM (#22586731)
>t's estimated that as many as 20% of the infected are asymptomatic, including no fever. A lot of your suggestions would fail to contain the virus.

We don't need to stop 100% of the transmissions. Right now, on average, an infected person will pass it on to 2-3 people. The goal is to get that to below 1 and eventually it will fizzle out.

I'm not quite sure what's so controversial about my post. It's what countries in Asia have done and they've all contained the spread.

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