«NEVER epidemiologically advantageous to segregate and ISOLATE FRAIL people»
… have imposed policies to reduce contacts between people who are presumed to be particularly vulnerable
… concentrated in centralized care facilities
… entail limiting social contacts
… with visitors, staff members, and other care home residents
… we find that concentrating the most vulnerable into centralized care facilities
… always increases the infectious disease attack rate in the vulnerable group
… without significant benefit to the robust group
… the worst possible mixing circumstances for reducing harm in epidemic or pandemic conditions
… “ideal environments” for outbreaks of infectious respiratory diseases
… responsible for many deaths attributed to COVID-19
… is virtually never epidemiologically advantageous to segregate and isolate frail people
