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>>themgt+(OP)
One of the authors tweeted this:

"The rest of the world has accepted the endemic nature of Covid and moved on, but the U.S. is an int'l outlier, still pushing mass testing & chasing down every case." [0]

I'm not sure what inverse universe he lives in given that we barely do any official testing, and contact tracing never even got off the ground.

His retweets are also all the other well known covid-minimizers - including the infamous Jay Bhattacharya.

[0] https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1546533258187390977

>>kindat+NR
Shit, most cities in the US stopped seriously doing comprehensive contact tracing around the time NY threw in the towel, back in late Spring or early Summer 2020 IIRC. Yes, within months of it reaching our shores.

"Pushing mass testing" LOL in what universe? I guess they shipped out a second wave of those mediocre home tests recently but not that many of them and only if you asked. Otherwise you just go get tested at a doctor's office or urgent care if you start to feel terrible, if you want to, just like with the flu, so you know exactly how careful you and others in your household need to be about hanging out around old folks. In fact, one of the ones we recently did was a combo test for both Covid and flu.

Anything beyond that's coming from employers, not the government, and most of them aren't doing much anymore and haven't been for a while.

>>corrra+DT
I guess this is anecdotal, but counterexample. I had COVID twice. The first time there was extensive contact tracing performed by the county. The second time, there was basically nothing. Contact tracing in my area stopped when Omicron took over.