These are the places Covid-19 spreads in the real world, Bloomberg Opinion [View all]

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These are the places Covid-19 spreads in the real world:

🖥Workplaces
🍽Restaurants
⛪️Churches
🎈Parties

It doesn't really spread here:

🌳Public parks
🏖Beaches
🛒Quick trips to the grocery store

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Scientists are starting to get a handle on how the novel coronavirus behaves. We now know that the two drivers of the spread of the disease are:

1) Close contact
2) Crowding in closed space

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You've probably heard that each infected individual transmits the virus to between two and three others on average.

But the important point, which is often missed, is that this is just an average

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In the real world, most people transmit the disease to nobody, and a minority infect many others in super-spreading events.

Only 9% of infected people are responsible for 80% of the transmissions

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People think if you get exposed, you'll automatically get sick or become infectious, but that's not always the case.

Even people exposed to sick family members in their homes don’t always get sick https://t.co/LyScwtM7Sd https://t.co/I7STH6sUvt

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People passing by you in a supermarket are unlikely to infect you. ⛅️Outdoor environments appear much safer as well.

In one study, which followed hundreds of cases, all but one transmission occurred indoors https://t.co/LyScwtuwtD https://t.co/H4nvuwlnxX

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