IA full quarantine is always one way to end an epidemic, but that only works if you do it fast and complete, with contract tracing.
We did that with Ebola.
But we were unwilling to do that with covid-19.
If we had, then it would only have lasted 2 weeks and the epidemic would have been gone for good.
I agree but the problem doing this is we weren't prepared. To quarantine, you would have to be able to test people when the epidemic was in it's infancy in March of 2020, but we didn't have working test kits. We didn't have enough trained personnel. We didn't have enough equipment or masks. And most important we did have any plans to deal with an epidemic and the chain of responsibility was not well defined.A full quarantine is always one way to end an epidemic, but that only works if you do it fast and complete, with contract tracing.
We did that with Ebola.
But we were unwilling to do that with covid-19.
If we had, then it would only have lasted 2 weeks and the epidemic would have been gone for good.
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