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cord-306910-qwaoe5du	Walline, Joseph Harold	Quarantine Wristbands, Face Masks, and Personal Freedom in Hong Kong	2020-08-16		.txt	text/plain	1150	57	59	title: Quarantine Wristbands, Face Masks, and Personal Freedom in Hong Kong I write to share my perspective on responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as an American emergency physician living in Hong Kong who was recently required to wear a tracker wristband and subjected to mandatory home quarantine. This home quarantine policy was part of a broader infection control system in Hong Kong involving universal hospitalization of all positive COVID-19 cases, exhaustive social contact tracing, and selective quarantining of high-risk individuals. When I arrived in Hong Kong, all adults and children older than age 6 years who had traveled anywhere other than Taiwan, Macau, and mainland China during the standard incubation period were required to undergo a mandatory 14-day home quarantine (this has since been upgraded to include mandatory testing) (3). In Hong Kong, the quarantine wristbands are a sign of a functioning public health system-even if they are merely strips of paper.	./cache/cord-306910-qwaoe5du.txt	./txt/cord-306910-qwaoe5du.txt