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> Officials in Haridwar said that on Monday and Tuesday alone they detected nearly 2,000 infections among festival goers. https://www.dw.com/en/india-hindu-fes

• krona 5y ago
  A news report with the words "Experts say.." is noise. A case documented in a journal in a trial (e.g. DANMASK-19, or any of the dozens of other trials) is not an unreasonable standard of evidence in order to better determine what the true risk of outdoor transmission is.
  • _euac 5y ago
    How exactly would you confirm - beyond any doubt - that contagion happened outside? Most people live most of their lives inside a building of one sort or another, so it'd be almost impossible to 'document' a case of outside transmission. The closest thing we have is homeless populations - they spend most of their time exclusively outside - and they still get sick: https://www.sfpublicpress.org/covid-19-cases-spike-among-homeless-san-franciscans/ https://www.sfpublicpress.org/covid-19-cases-spike-among-hom... So making some big claim about how outdoors transmission is impossible is kind of preposterous.
    • manquer 5y ago
      Even people from remote Amazon tribes in the jungle have got covid. Also in warmer countries outdoor/indoor is not all that different ventilation wise. It is not like I am magically getting covid if I am standing just inside the door and am suddenly immune standing on the porch.