Corona virus, just wondering out loud

He does have a point, we cannot stay at home forever, we should have begun mass testing as soon as Nairobi went into lockdown to get a clear picture of the infection rate in our "epicentres", as it stands no one knows how many cases we might have which means whatever policies we are relying on are based on assumptions rather than actual data.

Lockdown ends on 27th April. We have tested 10k people. What is the next strategy?
 
what we need is targeted mass testing for corona and general mass testing for corona anti bodies. Anti body tests will tell us whether most people were already infected and healed

You are right.

I read a story where in US a person did two PCR tests that showed he was negative. When he went for antibody test he was told he had had the Chinese virus.
 
what we need is targeted mass testing for corona and general mass testing for corona anti bodies. Anti body tests will tell us whether most people were already infected and healed

We also need a system for every healthcare provider to log in details of anyone who presents with any of the symptoms associated with the virus to enable tracking and tracing of patients and contacts, we need to be able to control the infection rate by having those infected isolated and treated as soon as possible
 
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Sampling would be a good starting point rather than a census to give an general indication of numbers..... There is a possibility that many in the population are infected but do not present severity.... Then it's possible to determine whether to continue with curfews or go for mass testing, enforce lockdowns......
I agree, sahii we are doing things bila data
 
Wewe hujui chenye unasema. That is the population that maybe should be tested in your estate only during this period. Gemany was doing upto 80k tests a day.
Can you compare kenya to Germany really? The CS said that they have brought in 200k testing kits from China for mass testing, is kenya able to do 80k testing per day?
 
what we need is targeted mass testing for corona and general mass testing for corona anti bodies. Anti body tests will tell us whether most people were already infected and healed
What we are in the dark is what mass testing means in the kenyan context, if 1k tests per day is not mass testing, is it 3k, 10k or what?
 
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