Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people have been outlining areas of the country based on how “safe” they are, or in other words, how prevalent the coronavirus is and how badly it is spreading. And while experts have told us that home quarantine is safer than going out into the world, a recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seems to suggest otherwise. In fact, the CDC says people are five times more likely to get coronavirus at home than in public.
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The study, conducted by South Korean epidemiologists, examined 5,706 “index” patients, the first to be identified as infected with the virus, and 59,073 people who came in contact with them between January 20 and March 27. According to the study, 11.8 percent of “household contacts” (those living with an infected individual) had COVID-19, while the same was true for only 1.9 percent of “non-household contacts” (those who no).
As pointed out Reuters, the study also found that “only two out of 100 [2 percent] infected people had contracted the virus from non-domestic contacts, while one in 10 [10 percent] they had contracted the disease from their own families. “That means transmission from someone in your home is five times more likely.
The authors of the study suspect that this may be due to the fact that “personal protection measures and social distancing,” things that have been shown to be effective methods of curbing the spread, are less common when people are at home.
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Children playing and parents resting at home during the coronavirus pandemic
A study conducted in May in Bejing, China, published by BMJ Global Health, endorses the idea that people are more likely to contract coronavirus in the home, stating that “the majority of person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 infection, is has produced in families. “
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In addition, the new CDC study in South Korea found that the infection rate at home was highest when index patients were between the ages of 10 and 19, which is an important consideration in the discussion about reopening schools. in the United States “. The role of domestic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 amid the reopening of schools and the loosening of social distancing underscores the need for an urgent epidemiological study to guide public health policy,” they concluded. the authors of the study. And for more interesting infection statistics, this is the age of most people with COVID in your state.
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