Tue Aug 17, 2021 – 11:39 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last year explored a strategy to isolate people living in camps into segregated, closely monitored groups, saying that the approach “may prove effective in preventing COVID-19 infection.”
In a document published in July, 2020, the CDC outlined implementation of the so-called “shielding approach,” particularly for “camps, displaced populations and low-resource settings,” like refugee camps.
“This approach has never been documented and has raised questions and concerns among humanitarian partners who support response activities in these settings,” the CDC said. The agency’s document sought “to highlight potential implementation challenges” and “guide thinking around implementation in the absence of empirical data.”
The CDC cited guidance released in March 2020 by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on a “more targeted approach of specifically preventing infections among groups at high risk of COVID-19 mortality,” which the LSHTM referred to as “shielding.”
“The shielding approach aims to reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (‘high-risk’) and the general population (‘low-risk’),” the CDC summarized.
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