1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2022 • Miguel E. P. Silva, Martyn Fyles, Li Pi, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Caroline Jay, Thomas House, Elizabeth Fearon
Since regular asymptomatic testing requires only those with a positive result to reduce contact, while lockdown measures require the whole population to reduce contact, any policy decision that seeks to trade off harms from infection against other harms will not automatically favour one over the other.
