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Technically you can't say with confidence that it did not happen, there's no actual evidence that it did not. That said, he probably got it the normal way (thro
by Vecr 5y ago
Technically you can't say with confidence that it did not happen, there's no actual evidence that it did not. That said, he probably got it the normal way (through the air) from his friend, or from whoever gave it to his friend. Not exactly related, but the WHO messing up with human-to-human and airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is not something you want to happen again, so you don't want to dismiss things with the confidence the article does.
- sohkamyung 5y agoThe article does say this, which implies high confidence that the food had nothing to do with his condition. > "It was completely irrelevant to this patient's presentation," Rosenberg said, adding that the doctors on the case never thought that spoiled food caused the illness. "It was horrifying that this is how medical disinformation can be so easily disseminated... There were more media outlets than I can count who picked up on this and were reporting on it."
- Vecr 5y agoThat's absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. The dogma is that you can't get N. meningitidis invasive infection from food, but this case is no way provides evidence to support that you can't. Also, I oppose the label "disinformation", apparently a bunch of people got confused, including ProMED, no one is/was trying to pull anything.