Re:California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
by ridaj on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:03AM
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Aren't the techniques that Taiwan and Korea have employed (testing, isolation of known cases, contact tracing) irrelevant at this stage of contagion? I doubt of the efficacy of contact tracing when you have enough of a percentage of population infected that a single visit to Costco or any other supermarket would mean a very high chance of being there at the same time as an infectious person...
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Re:California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
by tomerico on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:36AM
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I think that the answer is that we don't know what's the effect of each measure. The fact that Japan & Australia did not employ contact tracing, but also managed to contain the spread shows that there are other factors at play. It might be face masks use, or temperature (for Australia), but it does show that there are potential alternatives that could be viable.