Tag Archives: delay the peak

Herd immunity was in everyone’s plan at first

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Sarah

Something else that seems very significant looking back. The whole paradigm we had in the beginning, of having a “contain” phase that is fairly quickly abandoned and moving on to a “delay” phase. This apparently was developed in planning for … Continue reading →

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Peak

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Sarah

Supposedly we’re at the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak now, or just past it. The concept of “the peak” entered discourse in mid-March, in talk of measures to “delay” it with social and behavioural interventions. At the time, we were … Continue reading →

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Strategies, national and personal

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Sarah

So here is what I understand… China, South Korea, Singapore have actually managed to contain Coronavirus, through either really stringent lockdowns and/or painstaking contact tracing and extensive testing. (I suppose the populations remain vulnerable, but any further outbreaks will be … Continue reading →

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