Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by usrusr on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:06PM
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Another reason why that synchronous 14 day lockdown would fail to eradicate the virus: unless you are going for total solitary confinement, intra-family transmission chains would be able to sustain the virus much, much longer than those 14 days. Even a household as small as a two child nuclear family could sustain the virus quite long if each infection happens to have a fan-out of one and happens rather late in the contagiousness window.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by ptx on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:31PM
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China did isolate infected people away from home for precisely this reason. Seems to have worked.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by usrusr on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:19PM
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But that surely was only known positive isolation, not the blanket "everybody stay home" thing grandparent was suggesting. That's a huge difference particularly wrt (child)care: someone will take over until you are healthy again vs nobody can take over because everybody else is going through the same solitary confinement thing.