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Originally Posted by chappuy1750
RE: quarantines -- it would appear that the draconian containment measures that worked for SARS are the main tools in the toolbox before mitigation. This might work if only COVID19 virus weren't so contagious.
I take it that any containment helps set up mitigation?
From the Lacet:
Key messages
• There are many similarities between severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from the virus homology to the origin and transmission routes.
• SARS was effectively eradicated by implementing top-down draconic measures to halt all human-to-human transmission.
• Traditional public health measures used during SARS were successful and included active case detection, isolation of cases, contact tracing and quarantine of all contacts, social distancing, and community quarantine.
• Whether these measures will also be successful for COVID-19 will not depend on the similarities but the differences between SARS and COVID-19.
• Clear differences are emerging, such as in transmissibility and severity pyramids; COVID-19 has a higher transmissibility than SARS, and many more patients with COVID-19 rather than SARS have mild symptoms that contribute to spread because these patients are often missed and not isolated.
• Because of the extent of community spread, traditional public health measures might not be able to halt all human-to-human transmission, and we need to consider moving from containment to mitigation.
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Just recently some dude at the WHO said it was less transmittable than the flu....which the flu is more transmittable than SARS...