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Monday, June 01, 2020 

The best way to stop more Coronavirus infections is to get everyone tested

With more Corona cases spiking up at schools in Israel, the health ministry will conduct tests on just about everyone and anyone, even if they don't have noticeable symptoms, and another professor makes the following recommendation:
As Israelis declined to comply with social-distancing directives, children returned to school, restaurants opened, and the number of people screened for the novel coronavirus dropped, the country quickly started to see a surge in active cases of SARS-CoV-2.

Over the weekend, Israel crossed a redline: More than 100 people were diagnosed with coronavirus within a 24-hour period. Now, Israelis stand to be locked down again.

Eli Waxman, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science who led the team that formulated the National Security Council’s exit strategy proposal that was accepted by the prime minister, said there are three steps to stopping the country’s next closure: Test, trace, isolate.

And it all has to be done within two days.

“The idea is to stop someone who has symptoms, get him tested and get the results,” he told The Jerusalem Post. “If he tests positive, then you go into the contact-tracing phase. You need to identify all of his contacts in the past two weeks, reach out to them and isolate them. Then, you need to test them, too. And you need to do all of this in 48 hours.”
I'd say this is important info to consider. The schools were not without fault, seeing how badly the Gymnasia school handled everything, but failure to test every possible person here is also vital. I hope this advice will be taken up.

And while we're on the subject, here's a report of how the virus spread again at the Rehavia school:
According to Channel 12, a “super-spreader” teacher at the Rehavia neighorbood-based school caused the mass infections, after coming in to teach despite knowing he was sick.
Most disturbing. The teacher should be fired for irresponsibility, and possibly even charged with a crime. This is another serious problem that's going to make returns to normal much harder again, because if the invalid refuse to acknowledge it, they're only endangering other people.

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