{"id":12353,"date":"2020-07-01T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:55:30","slug":"superspreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12353","title":{"rendered":"Superspreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, and more than many other viruses, Covid-19 profits from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-superspreading-events-drive-most-covid-19-spread1\/?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_content=organic&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=SciAm_&#038;sf235593901=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">superspreading<\/a> events.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The evidence about superspreading activities has led researchers to believe they are responsible for much of the new coronavirus\u2019s transmission. \u201cAll of the data I\u2019m seeing so far suggest that if you tamp down the superspreader events, the growth rate of the infections stops very, very quickly,\u201d Scarpino says. \u201cWe saw in Seattle that there were at least a couple of introductions that did not lead to new cases\u201d\u2014implying that the virus can fade out if it is denied circumstances for spreading.<\/p>\n<p>But in the U.S.\u2014where there have been nearly 2.16 million cases and more than 117,000 deaths\u2014those situations may be on the rise. States are reopening businesses and activities, which means more people are coming in contact with one another in larger groups. So minimizing conditions that allow superspreading events to happen will be crucial for keeping COVID-19 in check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gist of it seems to be that gathering in close association with a large group for a protracted period &#8212; classroom, church, a political rally, and similar &#8212; is more dangerous than a brief encounter.  Wear a mask and avoid large gatherings, in other words, but don&#8217;t freak-out because you have to detour through the grocery store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, and more than many other viruses, Covid-19 profits from superspreading events. The evidence about superspreading activities has led researchers to believe they are responsible for much of the new coronavirus\u2019s transmission. \u201cAll of the data I\u2019m seeing so far &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12355,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}