The Swiss Cheese Strategy for Covid-19 Prevention

An increasingly popular way to think about Covid-19 prevention is called the Swiss cheese strategy. The idea is that the way to stop the virus is layered, including using tools like distancing and contact tracing. No single recommendation is perfect—they all have holes through which infections can pass. But together they form a more impenetrable defense, as Thomas Pueyo explains. Read more below.

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