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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by irrational on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:36PM (#23952184)
I thought contact tracing was exactly how countries like South Korea kept their numbers so low?
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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by SpicyLemonZest on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:47PM (#23952268)
It's unclear. Rates in South Korea are rising, and they've generally used somewhat broad shutdowns in addition to contact tracing. (For example, when there were positive cases found in Seoul bars, they closed all the bars in the city for weeks.)
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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by on_and_off on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:59PM (#23953298)
contact tracing + massive testing.

It is unclear to me why this wasn't doable in more countries but this has been one of the very few winning strategies. (not trying to be malicious here, I admit that I don't know the logistics of large scale testing and why it wasn't applicable to more countries).

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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by usaar333 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:32AM (#23954678)
Well, that and an actually effective isolation program.
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