"Over 500 hotels are waiting to accept homeless, covid positive patients needing step-down care, NHS staff looking to distance safely from family while working, & those who have been asked to self-isolate but would find it difficult to do so from home." https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n327

"5000 rooms could be prepared within 72 hours of being asked. The hotels are fully insured to handle patients and staff, and hotel workers have been trained to clean and work in a way that minimises risk of spread. The whole enterprise is charged at cost with no profit made..."

"The UK government’s response to the proposal has been muted, however. Hotel isolation is being implemented but only for a small number of international travellers arriving in the UK from certain countries where cases are high..."

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“There are people who need to isolate but are struggling to do so because of a number of factors, such as living in shared accommodation,” says Akbar de’ Medici, honorary associate professor at University College London, and medical director of Cavendish Health Concierge.

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"With colleagues, Wilder-Smith modelled what impact facility based isolation for all cases could have on the spread of disease. Offering five isolation beds per 10 000 people could reduce new infections by 57%, and deaths by more than a third."

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“What’s driving the majority of background community transmission is non-modifiable by individual choices.”

@mugecevik
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"Economically marginalised communities generally cannot simply choose immediately to modify their transmission networks through changes to their living or working contexts in the absence of specific support.”

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Covid-19 is known to have disproportionately affected the poorest in society, often in jobs that either cannot be done from home or are unstable, or in industries such as hospitality that aren't stable enough to survive the closures that lockdowns & social distancing have wrought

"To stop working and isolate is to cut off your livelihood with immediate effect."

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Within-household transmission is “very common,” according to SAGE, but can be mitigated in part by offering a “comprehensive package of information and support.”

Yet gov systems put in place to support those asked to self-isolate do not match what SPI-M says is needed.

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Without support, self-isolation— the key pillar of the test, track, and isolate plan to slow the spread of covid-19—simply doesn’t work.

I honestly don't know what more there is to say.

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