Today, UK prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the legal duty to self-isolate is likely to be abolished earlier than anticipated. He told MPs that he expected the final tranche of domestic Covid restrictions would end this month, provided the positive data trends continue.
Under the current policy, you can be fined up to £10,000 for failing to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid. The policy is based on the premise that infectious individuals increase the risk of transmission to others. However, during the pandemic, one in three cases, as identified by a PCR positive, were likely not contagious. At times, it may have been as high as half of all cases.
This is because of the indiscriminate and inappropriate use of PCR testing. Plus, depending on your age and the state of your health, the time you remain infectious can vary substantially.
The argument for mass testing of the general public was that it would delay or interrupt transmission by isolating the infectious, and it would help us keep an eye on the state of the pandemic. PCR testing would achieve this by identifying contagious individuals.
These assumptions rest heavily on the idea that we can govern the spread of respiratory viral agents. Unfortunately, the history of epidemics – and the experience of this one in particular – shows that an initial explosive phase swiftly overwhelms under-resourced and unprepared communities, especially when we start with a poor understanding of the virus’s modes of transmission.
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