Effective prevention strategies mean that the next waves of covid-19 cases should be smaller and less damaging to social life and national economies
-2 infection. Testing regular visitors may be prudent too—or finding other ways to stop them bringing in the virus. Some Dutch care homes, for example, have installed glass partitions in the rooms where residents and visitors meet.
Generalising this approach may offer lessons for dealing with the disease in the wider world. One strategy, put forward by academics from Edinburgh University, is to divide the population into three segments: those most vulnerable; their close regular contacts ; and everyone else. Shielders include those who live with the vulnerable, relatives who visit them and social workers who care for them.
Ideas about how to make this happen are already popping up. Gibraltar and Bulgaria, for example, have designated a Golden Hour each day, when parks and public spaces are reserved for the elderly, with others asked to stay home. Contact-tracing apps, which alert those who have been close to an infected individual, would be particularly valuable for shielders—along with stricter hand-hygiene measures, face masks and social distancing. Shielders could also be given priority for testing.
How many would be in each of these segments depends on the criteria for vulnerability. England’s National Health Service has identified 1.5m people at high risk because of a pre-existing medical condition. That is 2.7% of the population. If the definition were expanded to include people over 70 and those under that age who are in care homes, thereby accounting for roughly 80% of those who seem to suffer severe covid-19 infections, it would include 20% of the population.
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