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Testing asymptomatic people for COVID is a classic case of overdiagnosis—on a massive scale.
So why are we doing it? (Read the excerpts...all the way to the end.)
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/23/1/1
So why are we doing it? (Read the excerpts...all the way to the end.)
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/23/1/1
The pushback to this is that we are testing to reduce transmission, as a means of source control.
However, that problem would be solved if we transfer the responsibility for one’s health back from the collective to the individual....
However, that problem would be solved if we transfer the responsibility for one’s health back from the collective to the individual....
Solution: Facilitate vulnerable protecting themselves, not least of all b/c the alternative is futile.
There have been and always will be a small subset vulnerable to communicable disease which have minimal impact on the general populace...
There have been and always will be a small subset vulnerable to communicable disease which have minimal impact on the general populace...
Our resources would be better spent with targeted approaches vs. mass restrictions on the healthy.
1. Because there will never be full compliance.
2. The mass compliance approach diluted resources for those who really need them.
1. Because there will never be full compliance.
2. The mass compliance approach diluted resources for those who really need them.
This would be a very different situation if COVID had the universal severity of Ebola or if the volume of asymptomatic people wasn’t so huge.
But it doesn’t and it is.
Setting this precedent is not only unjustified, it’s ineffective and harmful.
But it doesn’t and it is.
Setting this precedent is not only unjustified, it’s ineffective and harmful.
