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> Not sure how they can confirm that it’s just 1 person infected vs. a group. They've explained it before -- https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/166544460
by maxsilver 3y ago
> Not sure how they can confirm that it’s just 1 person infected vs. a group.
They've explained it before -- https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444605511311362?s=20 https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444605511311362... -- while they aren't confirming it's exactly one person, they've got strong data to suggest it's likely just one person, and for sure not some kind of community outbreak situation.
- Scoundreller 3y agoAlways present in a part of a large city and sometimes present in a smaller town that largely commutes into that larger city (the closest part) isn’t that strongly suggestive of a single person to me. To complicate things, people flush more than poop down the drain. And poop with different regularity along with location preferences. (The second thing being another reason why wastewater analysis is better for drugs/metabolites that excrete through urine)
- ssnistfajen 3y agoAuthor of original Tweet has another thread on narrowing down the search space for cryptic lineages, although this wasn't the Ohio one: https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1587551682388295680 https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1587551682388295680 It may not be a single person, but the individual(s) being infected exhibiting the same movement patterns would certainly be living together in close contact, and the lack of community spread supports the group of patients being very small, possibly just an individual.