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| Limiting Indoor Capacity Can Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Study Shows |
| 2020-11-12 |
| [NYTIMES] Research using cellphone data in 10 U.S. cities last spring could help influence officials’ decisions on new restrictions as cases resurge around the country. Restaurants, gyms, cafes and other crowded indoor venues accounted for some 8 in 10 new infections in the early months of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic, according to a new analysis that could help officials around the world now considering curfews, partial lockdowns and other measures in response to renewed outbreaks. The study, which used cellphone mobility data from 10 U.S. cities from March to May, also provides an explanation for why many low-income neighborhoods were hardest hit. The public venues in those communities were more crowded than in more affluent ones, and residents were more mobile on average, likely because of work demands, the authors said in the research published in the journal Nature on Tuesday. Link to Nature Article in comments The data came from the metro areas of Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Captain Covid is still at it? Why would anyone focus exclusively on "limiting infection" without simultaneously counting all of the downfalls associated with "limiting infection"? The entire handling of Asian Lung Disease has been one part satire and two parts farce. I'm an American. I'll take my chances. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2020-11-12 19:21 |
| #10 So a 20% reduction in restaurant capacity could prevent 80% of the infections? Mardi Gras was a killer! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-11-12 16:59 |
| #9 #6 You can go to the article in Nature. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-11-12 14:58 |
| #8 New York Times justifying cell phone hacking using covid because minorities, women hurt most. *keeps on walking* |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-11-12 14:54 |
| #7 Some notes on this from https://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2020/11/quotes.html |
| Posted by: James 2020-11-12 14:40 |
| #6 When was the last time the NYTs made up a story or tainted it with prejudice and bias? Probably today. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-11-12 14:19 |
| #5 8 in 10 new infections in the early months That'd be when Cuomo and Pelosi told their folks to go out and party, the virus was all a Trumpian hoax to get him re-elected. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-11-12 09:10 |
| #4 Obligatory noises from "covid-sceptics" - high emotional content, zero logic/reason. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-11-12 08:49 |
| #3 Three cheers for beer gardens! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-11-12 08:22 |
| #2 Shutdown fanaticism and Social Justice, G? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-11-12 07:30 |