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COVID "WAR" about as successful as Afghanistan [1]
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Date: 2023-05-17
A new book, Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report, is mainly a collection of anecdotes about various episodes in the political fights over COVID-19 policies at various levels of government in the U.S. -- most previously reported in media and memoirs of participants. Politics were an important factor but the book neglects facts and quantitative studies of how and why the virus spread so differently among and between countries and counties in the U.S. The 8 democratic countries that contained the virus, most unnamed in the book, are dismissed as "island countries". The procedures in these countries are discussed in my book, Roads to COVID-19 Containment and Spread. Finland and Norway are among the 8 and are not islands and the United Kingdom, an "island country", did about as badly as the U.S. The book implies that the U.S. did not do enough testing but mentions that Germany's tracing was overwhelmed by mass testing in the second year. On 70 percent of days in U.S. states there were more positive test results than tracers had time to contact. Many of the infected would not name contacts or comply with quarantine recommendations. Those who tested positive traveled an average of 208 miles that they would not have otherwise in the following week and many picked up the virus in the process. Slovakia was doing as well as the "island countries" until it started mass testing and its death rate then soared to among the highest in the world in the following year. There is not a word in the book about wastewater testing that would avoid the post-test behavior problems. Chapters 7 on the healthcare system and 9 on vaccine development are worth reading.
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