Coronavirus: How to Do Testing and Contact Tracing
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Posted On: 04/28/2020 1:59:48 PM
Coronavirus: How to Do Testing and Contact Tracing by Thomas Pueyo
https://link.medium.com/Px4xTADH35
note: link is on Medium.com if you cannot Access it there, Google the article author to locate it. The article discusses 4 things necessary to "reopen" the country. QMC can be part of the solution.
Summary
We can reopen the economy again if we do a few things right, including testing and contact tracing. We need to test all people with symptoms and their contacts, which means at most 3% of our tests should turn out positive. We need to identify as many infected as possible, and 70% to 90% of their contacts, to isolate or quarantine them. If we do all of that really fast (within a day or so), it might be enough to control the epidemic. We should hire lots of people to do that, and also use technology. The technology has some privacy tradeoffs, but they are really reasonable. Most of the bluetooth contact tracing apps built today are amazing pieces of technology that will be useless unless they get some fundamental changes.
https://link.medium.com/Px4xTADH35
note: link is on Medium.com if you cannot Access it there, Google the article author to locate it. The article discusses 4 things necessary to "reopen" the country. QMC can be part of the solution.
Summary
We can reopen the economy again if we do a few things right, including testing and contact tracing. We need to test all people with symptoms and their contacts, which means at most 3% of our tests should turn out positive. We need to identify as many infected as possible, and 70% to 90% of their contacts, to isolate or quarantine them. If we do all of that really fast (within a day or so), it might be enough to control the epidemic. We should hire lots of people to do that, and also use technology. The technology has some privacy tradeoffs, but they are really reasonable. Most of the bluetooth contact tracing apps built today are amazing pieces of technology that will be useless unless they get some fundamental changes.
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