This requires good public health communication, proper support for those who need to self-isolate, & trust.
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Unless we pass laws which support people to enable them to self-isolate properly, any improvements to test & trace will have marginal impact and cases will simply spiral out of control once again as we ease lockdown in December.
A short thread on what we can do and why 👇
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This requires good public health communication, proper support for those who need to self-isolate, & trust.
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transmission if positive cases isolate effectively. Yet
currently fewer than 20% of those who should isolate are fully adherent.
I don't think I need to explain why it's so critical to improve these rates.
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just 12% get a test, 18% isolate, & 11% of contacts isolate properly.
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is three times lower in those who earn less than £20,000 per year or have less than £100 saved.
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core function to protect sick workers during a health pandemic and subsequent economic crisis.
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individuals need to be supported properly for them to isolate, advising a daily text or phone call, with provision of food supplies, essential goods and employment
protection, stressing solidarity and togetherness.
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We could do this too (hotels), & it would go a long way to preventing spread within multigenerational households, where transmission often occurs.
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#Senegal began its #COVID19 response in Jan, initiating a comprehensive #ContactTracing programme & deciding to isolate every patient & give them a bed.
— The Sharing Scientist (@ScienceShared) June 4, 2020
As a result, they've had only 47 deaths.
Each one is individually acknowledged by the government.https://t.co/y7ahjgospj
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In the most vulnerable of settings.
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well I am absolutely astonished to learn that not giving staff the material support they need to stay at home if sick is associated with care home residents getting coronavirus! if only someone had told the providers, they surely would have done something! https://t.co/jtZ0btGhei pic.twitter.com/sFb2JgV8Ew
— Daniel Howdon (@danielhowdon) July 3, 2020
Wales has acted to change this in care homes, when will England? And when will we then follow SAGE, iSAGE and OECD advice and apply that across the board to improve self - isolation rates and therefore reduce rates of community transmission?
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NEW: Welsh government announced a top up to statutory sick pay for all social care staff, designed to ensure they don\u2019t lose out financially when they self isolate. They\u2019ll receive their full wage if they have to isolate because they have Covid or have symptoms.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 30, 2020
improvements to the test-and-trace system will have only marginal impact.
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See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
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— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
