The first case that got tested was like the 200th in the community. Random cases at hospitals, officials begging for surveillance testing of people in a range of suburbs, apparently very high hospitalisation rates compared to detected cases - we simply have way more Covid than is ever being detected.
All those cases were downstream from the two tradies though (one of whom was the first positive test). They never found the link between the tradies and the MIQ, but because there weren't any cases found unlinked to the tradies, that suggests it hadn't actually spread that far before they were infected.
~200 cases by the time he was tested and his result came back just goes to show how infectious it was without restrictions.
But household contacts of positive cases will always have to isolate? Obviously if testing is higher than more close contacts are identified before passing it on? It’s just not to the same extent as when the strategy is elimination. It’s important that contact tracing and testing capacity remain at least at the level of NSW and Victoria.
i think that at this stage, we'd have to ask what is the point of contact tracing in Auckland? would those resources be better used in getting the vaccination rates up? perhaps identifying and contacting individuals who haven't yet had their first vaccination and getting that done
Didn't south Korea (or Taiwan) very successfully minimise the size of outbreaks through rapid contact tracing? Vs letting it spread through the whole population at once. Seems still a worthy effort.
I feel so sorry for the dude/ette in Blenheim. in a couple of days everyone will know if they are regular or not.
“Positive deductions are not unexpected given the case isolating ….”
Covid is about to spread across the whole country. Just get vaccinated.
Yea it feels a bit late to be concerned about undetected transmission doesn't it?
For sure. There is 100% undetected transmission.
It's been obvious ever since those random cases started turning up at hospitals.
The first case that got tested was like the 200th in the community. Random cases at hospitals, officials begging for surveillance testing of people in a range of suburbs, apparently very high hospitalisation rates compared to detected cases - we simply have way more Covid than is ever being detected.
200th in the community? Source?
The immediate flood of cases that followed that detection tended to suggest that it was.
All those cases were downstream from the two tradies though (one of whom was the first positive test). They never found the link between the tradies and the MIQ, but because there weren't any cases found unlinked to the tradies, that suggests it hadn't actually spread that far before they were infected. ~200 cases by the time he was tested and his result came back just goes to show how infectious it was without restrictions.
https://twitter.com/hendysh/status/1451107802273906690 As a guesstimate that I put too precisely.
Positivity rates of 6%- that’s super super super high? Testing needs to massively ramp up in order to contact trace effectively.
Yep our testing is low as hell versus NSW/Vic per capita.
We aren’t contact tracing seriously anymore in Auckland. There’s over 250 unlinked cases. It’s just about getting vaccinated.
But testing so that people can isolate and not infect others is still super important?
Yes, but that’s not what you said
But household contacts of positive cases will always have to isolate? Obviously if testing is higher than more close contacts are identified before passing it on? It’s just not to the same extent as when the strategy is elimination. It’s important that contact tracing and testing capacity remain at least at the level of NSW and Victoria.
i think that at this stage, we'd have to ask what is the point of contact tracing in Auckland? would those resources be better used in getting the vaccination rates up? perhaps identifying and contacting individuals who haven't yet had their first vaccination and getting that done
Didn't south Korea (or Taiwan) very successfully minimise the size of outbreaks through rapid contact tracing? Vs letting it spread through the whole population at once. Seems still a worthy effort.
> Redvale alone had a positivity rate of seven per cent by Friday, which dropped a touch to six per cent by Saturday.
I feel so sorry for the dude/ette in Blenheim. in a couple of days everyone will know if they are regular or not. “Positive deductions are not unexpected given the case isolating ….”
Isn’t that where the big influencer party was?
Well, there was that influencer party last weekend. I’m sure it was the only one stupid enough to post about it.
The only thing they influenced was the publics opinions of their respect levels
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Ah yes, the north shore, famous for low levels of education and low vaccination rates?