test and trace
test and trace – locuzione
NHS Test and Trace is an outsourced service provided to the National Health Service in England, established in May 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
What happened to our ‘world-beating’ coronavirus test, track and trace system?
I have tested positive for coronavirus. Will the NHS track and trace service contact me?
La locuzione test and trace o track and trace o test, track and trace si riferisce al sistema di tracciamento dei contatti di qualcuno che è risultato positivo al test per il Covid-19. In Gran Bretagna la messa in opera del sistema è stata costellata di fallimenti e la situazione è peggiorata con l’aumentare dei contagi nelle scorse settimane. Un’app sviluppata qualche mese fa non è stata ancora distribuita; secondo voci critiche, la decisione del governo di non sottoporre a screening la popolazione a marzo, quando la pandemia stava prendendo piede, si è rivelata sbagliata e in effetti, come si legge nella prima citazione qui sopra, il servizio è stato attivato solo a fine maggio, cioè quando la prima ondata stava regredendo. Da molte parti si critica inoltre la scelta del governo di affidare il servizio di test and trace a diverse aziende private invece che alle aziende sanitarie locali, decisione questa che ha contribuito all’incapacità del sistema di reggere all’impennata di contagi legata alla riapertura delle scuole e delle attività economiche.
Origini del termine
L’ascesa di test and trace ben dimostra la rapidità con cui un’espressione può diffondersi capillarmente: da una manciata di occorrenze nel 2015 a quasi 20 milioni di risultati in una recente ricerca su Google.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
test and trace – phrase
NHS Test and Trace is an outsourced service provided to the National Health Service in England, established in May 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
What happened to our ‘world-beating’ coronavirus test, track and trace system?
I have tested positive for coronavirus. Will the NHS track and trace service contact me?
The phrase test and trace, sometimes track and trace or test, track and trace, has a simple meaning: it refers to the process of testing people for Covid-19 and, if they test positive, finding anyone they have been in contact with, informing them, and telling them to self-isolate and to get a test themselves. The implementation has been anything but simple, however, and has functioned less and less well as cases have risen sharply over recent weeks. An app was developed, but has not yet been rolled out. Critics say that the government’s decision to abandon testing of the general population almost entirely as the pandemic took hold back in March was the wrong one. Indeed, as the first quotation above shows, the service only became fully active at the end of May, when the first wave of the pandemic was receding. Others say that the government’s decision to outsource the test and trace service to multiple private companies rather than relying on local NHS bodies and staff has contributed to the system’s inability to cope when placed under severe strain by the reopening of schools and businesses and the subsequent rise in cases.
Origin
The rise of test and trace shows the speed with which an expression can become ubiquitous. It has gone from nowhere (a mere handful of instances in a large 2015 corpus) to almost 20 million hits in a recent Google search.
