[DocSavage87]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

[DocSavage87]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

[Goose]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

Thanks for posting the link. I think K J Seung's "lessons" are very important to absorb, particularly lesson #2

Lesson 2: You can test contacts too quickly and miss a case in the incubation period. Multiple employees were neg initially but ended up testing positive later (including #2). Multiple rounds of testing will be needed when dealing with a large outbreak.

There has been lots of back and forth on this board about testing contacts, but this is the simple truth, as much as we wish it were otherwise. Contacts have to quarantine. A single negative test will never be definitive until near the end of the quarantine period.

I also really liked lesson 5. As you point out, contact tracing probably isn't going to help us much in the "general" population right now, but in subsets thereof it can be valuable.

[Goose]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

Thanks for posting the link. I think K J Seung's "lessons" are very important to absorb, particularly lesson #2

Lesson 2: You can test contacts too quickly and miss a case in the incubation period. Multiple employees were neg initially but ended up testing positive later (including #2). Multiple rounds of testing will be needed when dealing with a large outbreak.

There has been lots of back and forth on this board about testing contacts, but this is the simple truth, as much as we wish it were otherwise. Contacts have to quarantine. A single negative test will never be definitive until near the end of the quarantine period.

I also really liked lesson 5. As you point out, contact tracing probably isn't going to help us much in the "general" population right now, but in subsets thereof it can be valuable.

[BostonCard]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

Thanks for posting the link. I think K J Seung's "lessons" are very important to absorb, particularly lesson #2

Lesson 2: You can test contacts too quickly and miss a case in the incubation period. Multiple employees were neg initially but ended up testing positive later (including #2). Multiple rounds of testing will be needed when dealing with a large outbreak.

There has been lots of back and forth on this board about testing contacts, but this is the simple truth, as much as we wish it were otherwise. Contacts have to quarantine. A single negative test will never be definitive until near the end of the quarantine period.

I also really liked lesson 5. As you point out, contact tracing probably isn't going to help us much in the "general" population right now, but in subsets thereof it can be valuable.

Yeah, specifically you want an isolation sandwhich: test - isolate - test.  The problem with testing alone as a strategy is that it only gives you the picture at a slide in time, and the virus may not be so accommodating as to reveal itself the day you test.

BC

[BostonCard]

At our prevalence, not sure how much contact tracing works in the general case but could still be useful in smaller bubbles like sports teams, etc.  This was an interesting tweet thread about the different ways of contact tracing and an analysis of a S Korea outbreak:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/kj_seung/status/1335600971666378752?s=20[/tweet]

Thanks for posting the link. I think K J Seung's "lessons" are very important to absorb, particularly lesson #2

Lesson 2: You can test contacts too quickly and miss a case in the incubation period. Multiple employees were neg initially but ended up testing positive later (including #2). Multiple rounds of testing will be needed when dealing with a large outbreak.

There has been lots of back and forth on this board about testing contacts, but this is the simple truth, as much as we wish it were otherwise. Contacts have to quarantine. A single negative test will never be definitive until near the end of the quarantine period.

I also really liked lesson 5. As you point out, contact tracing probably isn't going to help us much in the "general" population right now, but in subsets thereof it can be valuable.

Yeah, specifically you want an isolation sandwhich: test - isolate - test.  The problem with testing alone as a strategy is that it only gives you the picture at a slide in time, and the virus may not be so accommodating as to reveal itself the day you test.

BC

[magnus]

Yeah, specifically you want an isolation sandwhich: test - isolate - test.  

Isolation sandwich.  Swiss Cheese of Defense.  I see all this quarantining is making us hungry for a good sub/hoagie/hero. =)

[magnus]

Yeah, specifically you want an isolation sandwhich: test - isolate - test.  

Isolation sandwich.  Swiss Cheese of Defense.  I see all this quarantining is making us hungry for a good sub/hoagie/hero. =)