This is from Vox but it does reference a couple of studies
https://www.vox.com/21296067/corona...uperspreaders-superspreading-bars-restaurants
Only one of the 22 cluster location types the team analyzed in a preliminary study was an outdoor setting (building sites in Singapore; four clusters were linked to these sites, causing a total of 95 infections acquired directly from the sites).
These findings line up with other preliminary research that calculated closed environments to be almost 20 times more likely to spur additional coronavirus infections than open-air ones.
This may explain why the Black Lives Matter Rallies haven't been superspreader events (at least so far). They have been outdoors and at least some of the participants wore masks and tried to socially distance.
This at least is our experience in NYS where infections have continued to go down while having large rallies in all the major cities and this appears to be true in Connecticut, Minnesota (where it all started), and other "Blue states" where I would expect more protests and more mask wearing and social distancing than 'red states'.
On the other hand the President's indoor rally in Tulsa seems to have all the hallmarks associated with at least a potential superspreader event. They say they will check for fever which won't catch all cases and may be difficult to do for people coming in from outside with temperatures in the high 80's, likely crowded together to get into the venue. Masks will be distributed and one can hope the attendees will wear them notwithstanding the President's disdain to wearing one himself.
My analysis may sound political, but I think I'm being objective about what appears to at best, an inadvisable event. I also think that if it does significantly spread coronavirus and particularly if there are deaths as a result, the media will be all over it like a cheap suit.
Finally in what might well be considered political NY Governor Andrew just gave his last daily Coronavirus briefing. As he pointed out NY and NYC in particular have gone from the highest number of cases and rates of transmission to one of the lowest numbers of cases and rates of transmission.
All it took was buy in from the citizens to wear masks, socially distance and accept that these and other steps were necessary to control the virus. The guy is a control freak, but that might well be what's needed for this pandemic.
https://www.vox.com/21296067/corona...uperspreaders-superspreading-bars-restaurants
Only one of the 22 cluster location types the team analyzed in a preliminary study was an outdoor setting (building sites in Singapore; four clusters were linked to these sites, causing a total of 95 infections acquired directly from the sites).
These findings line up with other preliminary research that calculated closed environments to be almost 20 times more likely to spur additional coronavirus infections than open-air ones.
This may explain why the Black Lives Matter Rallies haven't been superspreader events (at least so far). They have been outdoors and at least some of the participants wore masks and tried to socially distance.
This at least is our experience in NYS where infections have continued to go down while having large rallies in all the major cities and this appears to be true in Connecticut, Minnesota (where it all started), and other "Blue states" where I would expect more protests and more mask wearing and social distancing than 'red states'.
On the other hand the President's indoor rally in Tulsa seems to have all the hallmarks associated with at least a potential superspreader event. They say they will check for fever which won't catch all cases and may be difficult to do for people coming in from outside with temperatures in the high 80's, likely crowded together to get into the venue. Masks will be distributed and one can hope the attendees will wear them notwithstanding the President's disdain to wearing one himself.
My analysis may sound political, but I think I'm being objective about what appears to at best, an inadvisable event. I also think that if it does significantly spread coronavirus and particularly if there are deaths as a result, the media will be all over it like a cheap suit.
Finally in what might well be considered political NY Governor Andrew just gave his last daily Coronavirus briefing. As he pointed out NY and NYC in particular have gone from the highest number of cases and rates of transmission to one of the lowest numbers of cases and rates of transmission.
All it took was buy in from the citizens to wear masks, socially distance and accept that these and other steps were necessary to control the virus. The guy is a control freak, but that might well be what's needed for this pandemic.
