Test and Trace Cost £37 Billion and Achieved Nothing. Lessons Must Be Learned From Such Colossal Waste
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By Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson In public health, identifying symptomatic subjects and their subsequent isolation is proposed and used for infectious diseases to slow outbreaks and, in some instances, stop them. The conceptual nub of the issue is that in the vast majority of cases, an infectious disease is contagious for a short time. During that period, the source of infection (known as the index case) may infect other people (contacts). Therefore, if you stop contact from the index case and their secondary cases (family, acquaintances, colleagues), you will interrupt or disrupt the chain of transmission of the agent.
Test and Trace Cost £37 Billion and Achieved Nothing. Lessons Must Be Learned From Such Colossal Waste
Test and Trace Cost £37 Billion and Achieved…
Test and Trace Cost £37 Billion and Achieved Nothing. Lessons Must Be Learned From Such Colossal Waste
By Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson In public health, identifying symptomatic subjects and their subsequent isolation is proposed and used for infectious diseases to slow outbreaks and, in some instances, stop them. The conceptual nub of the issue is that in the vast majority of cases, an infectious disease is contagious for a short time. During that period, the source of infection (known as the index case) may infect other people (contacts). Therefore, if you stop contact from the index case and their secondary cases (family, acquaintances, colleagues), you will interrupt or disrupt the chain of transmission of the agent.