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Those appear to be just PCR tests that tell you if the person has an active infection or not. Those that are negative should get a serology test to see if they
by jennyyang 6y ago
Those appear to be just PCR tests that tell you if the person has an active infection or not. Those that are negative should get a serology test to see if they were previously infected. The combination of both of those tests would be a true indication of how far this has spread.
Of course, given how infectious this virus is, it's no wonder that half have been infected in the last 1-2 weeks at the shelter. There's probably little to no safety measures in place to help isolate homeless people at that shelter, so it would spread like wildfire.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoYeah, it seems like it spreads to everyone in every nursing home it hits, so it'd be shocking to see it fail to spread in a homeless shelter.
- threeseed 6y agoIn a nursing home I would've expected nurses to be transmitting COVID-19 between patients. But merely having a lot of people in a room be enough for widespread transmission is a bit of a wake up call. I can't understand how given that you could ever open up bars, restaurants etc.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoWell, a lot of people in a room for at least 8 hours, and unless this is a one-day shelter probably iterated over quite a while. I don't think this suggests a story where you sit in a restaurant for 2 hours and then everyone's infected; there's only been one report of a case like that, and multiple contact tracing reports from other countries where a carrier only infected a few other people in their bus or restaurant.