Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

api wrote: post #19

ajross wrote: post #5

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Yes, but once the outbreak is at a low enough level, and you have sufficient test bandwidth, you can manage it via testing and tracing. Everyone who gets sick, with anything, gets tested (in some variants of the plan every everywhere gets tested every N days). If you find a positive, quarantine them and test everyone they came in contact with. Repeat. This reduces the rate of spread by catching community transmission…

That is very labor intensive and isn't sustainable. People will get complacent fast.

Post by dominotw » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #50

dominotw wrote: post #45

how was south korea able to scale up their testing so fast. Where did the extra testing capacity come from. I've been really curious about this but haven't seen any good answers so far.

All rich countries have been able to scale up their testing similarly quickly, once they decided it was a national priority to do so.

Post by daveFNbuck » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

Nokinside wrote: post #44

teapourer wrote: post #27

To be clear, the Korean government officially still recommends social distancing. They are especially worried about the family picnics mentioned in the article, and have officially closed many public parks in response. To repeat: don't take this as a sign that Korea believes it has successfully managed the outbreak.

You can't top mitigation/supression until there is herd immunity. You can get the immunity only two ways 1) enough people have been gone trough the disease or 2) vaccination. South Korea must use mitigation/supression until they have enough people vaccinated or it flares up again. Complete eradication without immunity is not feasible unless you isolate whole country from the rest of the world permanently.

Post by SpicyLemonZest » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #53

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #50

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All rich countries have been able to scale up their testing similarly quickly, once they decided it was a national priority to do so.

then how come all rich countries don't have 'mass testing success' like the article claims happened in south korea.

Post by SpicyLemonZest » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

daveFNbuck wrote: post #55

Nokinside wrote: post #44

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You can't top mitigation/supression until there is herd immunity. You can get the immunity only two ways 1) enough people have been gone trough the disease or 2) vaccination. South Korea must use mitigation/supression until they have enough people vaccinated or it flares up again. Complete eradication without immunity is not feasible unless you isolate whole country from the rest of the world permanently.

You don't have to completely isolate the country from the world. You just have to do testing and quarantining to ensure that infectious people and things aren't entering the country.