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They just don’t have the data. Look I got covid while wearing a mask. Infection was either at a grocery store. Or while walking at a park. Or while at a dog p

They just don’t have the data. Look I got covid while wearing a mask. Infection was either at a grocery store. Or while walking at a park. Or while at a dog park. Or who knows. How do you log that in your stats?

s1artibartfast 6y ago
You log it as "unknown community transmission". While you obviously can't trace everyone, California has 10,000 contact tracing staff [1] and has spent most of the pandemic with less than 5,000 confirmed cases per day [2]. These individuals are working every day to collect data, so I am sure it exists. If you get a positive test, contact tracers may ask you where you went and who you interacted with. They then call those people and ask them to get a covid test. IF the contact tests positive, then rinse and repeat. [3] If I live alone and only leave my house to grocery shop, it is pretty clear where I got covid. Similarly, if Bob had covid, I had dinner with Bob, and now I have covid, it is pretty safe to assume I got at dinner. Anecdotally, I had a friend who tested positive and the contact tracer told them that they had likely contracted while it shopping at a big 5 several days earlier. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/contact-tracing/state-survey-results https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/contact-tracing/state-survey-res... https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/states.html https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/states.html https://covid19.ca.gov/contact-tracing/ https://covid19.ca.gov/contact-tracing/