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The phrase "move in and out of elimination" is not clear to me. Does it mean "take action (of eliminating the virus) when outbreak occurs and move back to normal life (out of the elimination)"? Simply a guess here.
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New Zealand has adopted an elimination strategy. Does this latest outbreak suggest that isn’t possible?
We know that elimination is possible because New Zealand eliminated community transmission before. We expect to move in and out of elimination for the foreseeable future. The goal is to maintain zero community spread but this country will always be under threat from infections being introduced through the borders. No border-control system can be 100% fail-safe. But because we’re starting from a baseline of elimination, it should be feasible to extinguish each new outbreak using all the control measures we have at our disposal, including case and contact management, physical distancing and mass masking.
Source: Nature 14 AUGUST 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02402-5
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New Zealand has adopted an elimination strategy. Does this latest outbreak suggest that isn’t possible?
We know that elimination is possible because New Zealand eliminated community transmission before. We expect to move in and out of elimination for the foreseeable future. The goal is to maintain zero community spread but this country will always be under threat from infections being introduced through the borders. No border-control system can be 100% fail-safe. But because we’re starting from a baseline of elimination, it should be feasible to extinguish each new outbreak using all the control measures we have at our disposal, including case and contact management, physical distancing and mass masking.
Source: Nature 14 AUGUST 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02402-5
