In a viral surge, time is everything, esp with exponential spread. It means you cannot reasonably vaccinate your way out. You cannot depend on test results that take days to come back. You cannot hedge on quarantining or isolating. You cannot wait to start using better masks.
2/ You essentially need a way to stun transmission. Many have called for circuit breaker events in which any social interaction that could introduce transmission stops altogether outside of households (a “lockdown”)
However, I don’t think this is necessary to achieve this.
However, I don’t think this is necessary to achieve this.
3/ This was part of our proposal in May 2020 in this piece. With enough people wearing the right respiratory protection— that is, masks with excellent filtration AND source control— you could achieve close to the same thing without shutting down.
hbr.org/amp/2020/05/a-…
hbr.org/amp/2020/05/a-…
4/ cc @sri_srikrishna @RanuDhillon @HarvardBiz
Now despite vaccines and high levels of population immunity, we are faced again w the problem of slowing transmission— because w #Omicron, even small % of large number of cases is a large number of cases w/ limited hospital beds
Now despite vaccines and high levels of population immunity, we are faced again w the problem of slowing transmission— because w #Omicron, even small % of large number of cases is a large number of cases w/ limited hospital beds
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