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I can understand why. I've been to MWC a couple of times. I always took several bottles of hand-sanitiser for personal use, and made sure that our booth was wel
by edent 7y ago
I can understand why. I've been to MWC a couple of times. I always took several bottles of hand-sanitiser for personal use, and made sure that our booth was well stocked.
In an environment like that, you're shaking hands with hundreds of people per day and touching phone screens used by thousands. I lost count of the people (of all nationalities) who didn't wash their hands after using the toilets.
Even if the world wasn't in the grip of a respiratory pandemic, conferences like this are a health hazard.
- Angostura 7y ago>Even if the world wasn't in the grip of a respiratory pandemic It hasn't been declared a pandemic yet - Pandemics require home-grown native infective populations in multiple countries, I believe.
- bordercases 7y agoHow many countries? https://coronavirus.zone/ https://coronavirus.zone/ The virus is more lethal than SARS was on the same timeframe.
- loriverkutya 7y agoIf you trust the Chinese numbers. However based on interviews those number cannot be correct since there are multiple people with symptoms who does not goes to hospital or anywhere, just try to survive at home, so if they are affected by corona and not with the regular flu virus they still not appearing in the statistics.
- hyperpape 7y agoWould this not have also been the case for SARS? If there are two underestimates, is there a way to compare them reliably?
- jerf 7y agoIn general, only if you can be very specific about exactly how underestimated they are, which is equivalent to the problem of knowing the correct values in the first place, so, basically, no. (Sometimes statistics can help you out, but I think that's best understood as a set of fairly specific exceptions with very strong conditions on them, rather than the rule.)
- bordercases 7y agoHere's a paper that explores where underestimates may exist: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v1.article-metrics https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v...
- marcosdumay 7y agoYou are missing the "home-grown" part. The virus seems to only be spreading through China, plus, maybe HK. Everywhere else it's still contained.
- not_a_moth 7y agoSingapore has reported several cases of local transmission, no ties to China. https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan
- billfruit 7y agoPeople have been infected locally in Thailand, and by reports one of the UK persons infected got it in Singapore, so the case may be that it isn't contained in other countries as well.
- raverbashing 7y agoStill, I don't think it's a good idea to have a congress where a non-trivial number of people might have been in China in the 10 days preceding it.