ANALYSIS: What is the COVID 'bubble' strategy, and could it work in Australia?
The bubble would need to be exclusive. If you were "bubbling" with one household, you could not just decide to change to a different one whenever you please. If you did need to alter your bubble, there would have to be a 14-day gap between one set of people leaving and another group joining, to reduce the risk of transmission between bubbles.
For example, if one member of a multi-household bubble lives in an area of very high community transmission, this brings a greater risk to the whole bubble, even if other members of the bubble are in areas of low transmission. In epidemiology, our aim is to reduce risk as much as possible, but in a long pandemic we have to leave room for compassion .
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