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> Sixteen healthy volunteers were kissed by people with colds. The result: just one confirmed infection. This doesn't sound like a debunking of what people thi
by Eridrus 9y ago
> Sixteen healthy volunteers were kissed by people with colds. The result: just one confirmed infection.
This doesn't sound like a debunking of what people think at all. If the chance of getting infected from a kissing for a minute is 6%, and you spend a week around an infected person and you kiss them repeatedly, you will almost certainly get sick with that infection rate.
- wink 9y agoTo deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe. People's immune systems are so different... before I believe that I'd want to see every sick person kissing every healthy person or something. I don't even know how that would work with incubation times. Lock people away and just allow contact every 2 days for 3 weeks? But then all the sick people would probably be healthy again already. My head explodes just trying to think about this kind of trial, mixed with statistics :P
- Eridrus 9y ago> To deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe. Sure, I'm just saying this was not a very strong result in terms of disproving the fact that kissing doesn't spread cold viruses.