With the growing power of mass vaccination to reduce transmission, but with vaccine hesitancy and the threat of vaccine evading variants, we should consider mix and match elimination strategies:
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What strategies might work combining mass vaccination, mass testing, mass high quality masking, and stay at home restrictions, to achieve local elimination?
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Green zones continue to be the way to open up without restrictions, avoiding outbreaks of breakthrough variants. What level of border control or travel restrictions are needed depends on other ongoing precautions and vigilance.
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The key is to be in the regime where cases decline as rapidly as possible, and expanding areas that have achieved local elimination.
The enemy of success is wishful thinking: What is easy to do is not enough.
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Iran: Middle East's hardest-hit country Thursday reported 321 new deaths, 25,078 new cases. Widespread travel, weddings, celebrations during Iranian New Year starting March 20 cause surge in cases and deaths. Will be worse in upcoming weeks.
2. Internal province travel guidelines as well as inter-province travel restrictions 3. Free isolation and quarantine for people who are sick to protect family members and housemates
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4. Essential services with much better protection of workers and customers. 5. Better allocation of vaccination to prevent transmission
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India, despite success earlier with reducing cases, is now seeing by far the highest levels of transmission from the entire pandemic. New cases reached 199,569 today.
Figures are from yesterday.
Note: No magic stops the pandemic.
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Brazil with the P.1 variant out of control continues to at or near all-time highs of Covid deaths.
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Argentina has all-time high infections, though death rates are not (yet) at record highs. For such rapid increases in cases, the associated deaths will not occur for a few weeks.
"Geographically differentiated: There is now a significant difference between the municipalities in the spread of the epidemic. Most municipalities have no or only a few cases,...
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"some municipalities have ongoing outbreaks while some municipalities in central Eastern Norway have a persistently high incidence (which can be tens of times higher than most of the country otherwise).
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