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Where Are People Catching Covid-19 From?
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The UK has now been in lockdown nearly five weeks, longer than it takes an individual to catch CV-19 and show signs, therefore the hundreds of new cases admitted yesterday into hospital and the 813 people who died in hospital yesterday must have caught the virus after the lockdown -or did they? Where are people catching the virus? In supermarkets? From delivered shopping? Post? Why is the Government not researching where people are catching the virus from now we are in lockdown.?
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It’s a good question.
And I don’t think we know the answer.
The R0 for this virus is estimated now to be under one “in certain places” which it surely must be.
But the new cases are largely hospital cases. Also, increased testing ought to mean more cases discovered anyway.
I’d be surprised if many of the new cases were not people from care homes and those in areas where people are most at risk anyway.
This does suggest that social distancing for the public at large, from the point of view of hospital cases, is potentially irrelevant while it certainly does must stop the spread
And I don’t think we know the answer.
The R0 for this virus is estimated now to be under one “in certain places” which it surely must be.
But the new cases are largely hospital cases. Also, increased testing ought to mean more cases discovered anyway.
I’d be surprised if many of the new cases were not people from care homes and those in areas where people are most at risk anyway.
This does suggest that social distancing for the public at large, from the point of view of hospital cases, is potentially irrelevant while it certainly does must stop the spread
Danny - whilst you haven't had contact with anyone for the last two months you will have had deliveries, I expect. The fact that you haven't been infected means that you've either been lucky or very diligently making sure the deliveries are sterile before using them; not everybody will have been as lucky/careful.
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