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The lack of availability of rapid Covid tests. Cheap, gives a result in minutes. They are used a lot in Europe. Would much more testing with something that costs maybe less than a buck (if they weren't given out for free) available for every household to test everyone a couple of times a week have helped better ID where Covid was occurring? And maybe helped curb the spread? Part of the problem is the test instrument is considered a medical device and thus goes through a long approval process.
Could anything have been done differently to get greater acceptance of the vaccines? I don't know but it's an issue worth giving some thought to.
China, as I understand it, for quite a while wouldn't allow.access to Covid cultures (If that's the right word) which delayed vaccines from being developed. Can we get agreements for scientists to get rapid access in the future? If vaccines had come on line in Nov. 2000 instead of Feb 2001 lives would have been saved.
Apparently China succeeded where we failed. We probably do all they did but part of the response was mass testing was part of the response then maybe smaller lockdowns. Anything to learn there?
https://theconversation.com/from-ground-zero-to-zero-tolerance-how-china-learnt-from-its-covid-response-to-quickly-stamp-out-its-latest-outbreak-165963
Contact tracing? As far as I can tell the UK is way ahead of us. Why is that so?
Or maybe our response was perfect and we shouldn't worry about it.
I suspect there are many other issues out there.
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