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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,837 posts)
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 02:27 PM Apr 2020

How will it end? Testing, testing, testing, tracing and time

EVERETT, WA — As the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic begins to bend, health workers will need to return to what Dr. Geoff Baird calls “the bread and butter of epidemiology.”

Test many people for the virus.

Isolate those who test positive.

Find out who they’ve had contact with.

Quarantine them, too, until they can be tested.

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Experts agree this is the path forward. Traditional testing will need to be paired with tests to determine whether people have immunity, they say, for the world to see the end of the pandemic anytime soon.

But public health systems — local and national — face a host of obstacles to achieve this vision for the future. Local health departments need more resources for widespread contact tracing. Critical scientific questions still need answers.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/how-will-it-end-testing-testing-testing-tracing-and-time/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=28d3f8eea2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-28d3f8eea2-228635337

And "Shit for Brains" in the Whitehouse is not helping.

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How will it end? Testing, testing, testing, tracing and time (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
K & R...for visibility...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2020 #1
NOT gonna happen satisfactorily nationwide, elleng Apr 2020 #2

elleng

(130,825 posts)
2. NOT gonna happen satisfactorily nationwide,
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 02:34 PM
Apr 2020

due to

GOVERNORS (and other 'incidental' officials) will be 'winners' here, and this process will take a long time to wind down (if EVER.)

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