togor
10-02-2020, 07:31
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/health/covid-india-children.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=532110873&algo=identity&imp_id=186621651&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage
Interesting result:
Over all, the researchers found, 71 percent of the people in the study did not seem to have transmitted the virus to anyone else; instead, just 5 percent of people accounted for 80 percent of the infections detected by contact tracing.
This is different from the idea of “super spreader” events in which a single person infected hundreds of people at a crowded gathering, Dr. Lewnard said.
What they're saying is that it's comparatively few people who are contagious (perhaps asymptomatic) and go about leaving a trail of virus everywhere.
It may also explain why Sweden has hung in there, with a disciplined population that is willing to comply with the measures that are used. The virus is not getting that easy trail to new hosts.
Some folks wonder that India isn't getting slammed harder, but I would think that with all the germs there to begin with, they all have pretty kick-ass battle-hardened immune systems.
Interesting result:
Over all, the researchers found, 71 percent of the people in the study did not seem to have transmitted the virus to anyone else; instead, just 5 percent of people accounted for 80 percent of the infections detected by contact tracing.
This is different from the idea of “super spreader” events in which a single person infected hundreds of people at a crowded gathering, Dr. Lewnard said.
What they're saying is that it's comparatively few people who are contagious (perhaps asymptomatic) and go about leaving a trail of virus everywhere.
It may also explain why Sweden has hung in there, with a disciplined population that is willing to comply with the measures that are used. The virus is not getting that easy trail to new hosts.
Some folks wonder that India isn't getting slammed harder, but I would think that with all the germs there to begin with, they all have pretty kick-ass battle-hardened immune systems.