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:oh no meme: The statements from CDPHE sound to my ear like boilerplate 'downplay' language. There are 55 symptomatic people, that's amazing. Confirmatory test

:oh no meme: The statements from CDPHE sound to my ear like boilerplate 'downplay' language. There are 55 symptomatic people, that's amazing. Confirmatory tests are important of course, but what a data point. How large would the workforce have to be for 55 concurrent symptomatic (safe to assume those included have clear symptoms) people to be uninteresting? If this is only "bird to human" infection, isn't that a notable rate of transmission? I'd think even a workforce of 1000 handling dangerous pathogens daily would be getting ill more like 10 per week over a period of time. Its alarming that 55 are ill all at once. We are all going to be reading a firehose about physical contact vs. respiratory transmission again just like the old days. I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019.

onion2k 2y ago
If there was a single case of bird-to-human transmission, and that person went to the canteen when they were at the peak of their contagiousness and passed it to 54 others, you'd see the same impact. You can't guess this stuff.
fragmede 2y ago
> I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019. Can you expound upon this? Your claim is some government said in May that Covid was a respiratory disease?
- banku_brougham 2y ago
  I'll dig it up, but it wasnt that long agi. We all lived through it. Remember washing vegetables and surfaces because they were telling us in the US about fomites and surface transmission after touching your face? It was a long time before the CDC recommended masks, and that outdoor transmission was far less likely.
  - banku_brougham 2y ago
    Here this from 2021 should do. Sorry NyTimes paywall, but the first paragraph tells where it. There is a lot out there about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...

onion2k 2y ago

If there was a single case of bird-to-human transmission, and that person went to the canteen when they were at the peak of their contagiousness and passed it to 54 others, you'd see the same impact. You can't guess this stuff.

fragmede 2y ago

> I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019. Can you expound upon this? Your claim is some government said in May that Covid was a respiratory disease?

banku_brougham 2y ago
I'll dig it up, but it wasnt that long agi. We all lived through it. Remember washing vegetables and surfaces because they were telling us in the US about fomites and surface transmission after touching your face? It was a long time before the CDC recommended masks, and that outdoor transmission was far less likely.
- banku_brougham 2y ago
  Here this from 2021 should do. Sorry NyTimes paywall, but the first paragraph tells where it. There is a lot out there about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...