Doing trace and isolate properly is hugely resource intensive. Ideally you work out where they caught it and identify others potentially infected by the same source, and identify all the contacts that could become secondary cases and try to persuade them to isolate…
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It took all of our resources in Surrey and Sussex for over a week to cope with one case in Feb 2020 There are few shortcuts, despite all we've learned (although there are a few more people to do the work).
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It might be manageable if the number of new cases per day (in England) were in the very low hundreds - ideally less than 100.
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Cases at present are at about 30k per day and rising; Javid expects them soon to exceed 100k per day. At that level there is no chance of doing trace and isolate.
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I've no idea how health protection and public health teams are expected to cope. That was why we had national restrictions - it's impossible to do trace and isolate at scale!
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I wouldn't blame health protection teams if they said there was no point in trying to do any Covid-related work any more; it's trying to keep back the tide with a child's beach bucket.
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