Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by throwaway48375 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:22PM
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I don't see how it is so hard. Every positive PCR gets reported to the local health department which reports it to the state DPH. If the state can use this data to send me a letter asking me to donate convalescent plasma surely they could add this information to their digital covid passport.
Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by YZF on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:49PM
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I think if the data is available it is perfectly reasonable, and even expected, to consider it. Like they do in Israel. I can't really comment on the US in this regard but I'd agree with you that if they can they should... Right now where I am (Canada) they don't even bother testing you unless you're at risk, so nobody knows...
In Israel I also believe there is different policy for people that have been infected. This varies from place to place. Determining whether someone was or wasn't previous infected isn't that simple. You can do it if you have good contract tracing, testing, and more centralized health services like Israel does. Also many places didn't have a large enough portion of the population get infected in the first place so maybe not worth worrying too much about.