I despair. Look at nhs.uk/conditions/cor…
"You may want to tell people you've been in close contact with in the past 48 hours that you might have coronavirus."
You absolutely MUST do so, immediately…
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"You may want to tell people you've been in close contact with in the past 48 hours that you might have coronavirus."
You absolutely MUST do so, immediately…
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"[Your contacts] do not need to self-isolate unless they're contacted by the NHS Test and Trace service".
Which will only happen after they've infected most of the people they could've; and too late to have much effect.
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Which will only happen after they've infected most of the people they could've; and too late to have much effect.
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We will never get on top of this pandemic like this. To work, TTIS (test, trace, isolate, support) will never work unless contacts isolate immediately.
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People are infectious from 48 hours from contact - by the time people develop symptoms they've already been infectious for 48 hours.
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So it is vital that people who have been in contact with a possible case self-isolate immediately.
Testing may be able to exclude Covid-19 in some "possible" cases, and to shorten duration of self-isolation of contacts.
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Testing may be able to exclude Covid-19 in some "possible" cases, and to shorten duration of self-isolation of contacts.
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But if you await a test result before requiring contacts to self-isolate, you're leaving it too late!
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