Virus Testing Experiment in Italian Town Appears to Have Halted COVID-19

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Vò, a small town in northern Italy, could offer clues on to how to deal with the coronavirus after health authorities appear to have stopped the spread of COVID-19, preventing any new infections.

Italy's first death from COVID-19 was recorded in the northern town of Vò, a 3,300-strong community in the Province of Padua 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Venice. Scientists involved say it was an experimental initiative that enabled them to create a full "epidemiological picture" of COVID-19, Financial Times reports.

Since the start of the outbreak, authorities have been testing and retesting each of the town's inhabitants. The tests were performed on people whether or not they were displaying symptoms of the disease. By some reports, between a half and three-quarters of carriers in Vò, were asymptomatic.

Anyone who was found to be infected with the new coronavirus was then put into quarantine—as was everyone they had come into contact with.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/virus-testing-experiment-in-italian-town-appears-to-have-halted-covid-19/ar-BB11pso9?li=BBnb7Kz

[Liberty Belle]

1. Meanwhile we don't even have enough tests for those with symptoms.

Trump's lack of planing will kill thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands -- far more than died on 9/11 from terrorists.

[frazzled]

2. That is why as many of us who can should self-quarantine

Absent these tests, we should assume we are either carriers or susceptible to being infected.
It's a shame, but we have to do this on our own. Our government has failed.

[crickets]

3. This is why we need tests. This is why we should stay home, if possible, until we have them. nt

[Renew Deal]

4. They proved that quarantines work

We already knew that.

[Igel]

5. And that if you tested an entire, cordoned-off community repeatedly

while quarantining them, you could stop it cold.

1) Good luck with that quarantine.

2) Good luck testing everybody.

Just try that in NYC. Everybody tested. A couple of times this week. Boggles the mind, the number of tests and testing facilities need.

And comply with instructions to not come out of their dwellings? Now, that's just crazy talk.