My plan would be to not leave my room, except to take out the trash and to go to the bathroom. And I would shift to any early schedule. So I shouldn’t have much contact with my housemates, and would be doing my best not to touch the items they touch (and maybe disinfecting doorknobs / bathroom stuff before I touch them, if that’s practical).
So the factor that I’m most interested in is the one you assumed was 100%: if one of my housemates contracts the disease, how likely am I to catch it, and how much can I reduce the probability?
That factor is called the secondary attack rate; I’ve seen values ranging from as low as 10% in one study (which has garnered a lot of scepticism) and in some larger studies, ~ 40%.
Preventing transmission in a shared space is very difficult. I can’t give specific estimates as to how much any of the measures you mentioned would reduce that likelihood, unfortunately.
My plan would be to not leave my room, except to take out the trash and to go to the bathroom. And I would shift to any early schedule. So I shouldn’t have much contact with my housemates, and would be doing my best not to touch the items they touch (and maybe disinfecting doorknobs / bathroom stuff before I touch them, if that’s practical).
So the factor that I’m most interested in is the one you assumed was 100%: if one of my housemates contracts the disease, how likely am I to catch it, and how much can I reduce the probability?
That factor is called the secondary attack rate; I’ve seen values ranging from as low as 10% in one study (which has garnered a lot of scepticism) and in some larger studies, ~ 40%.
Preventing transmission in a shared space is very difficult. I can’t give specific estimates as to how much any of the measures you mentioned would reduce that likelihood, unfortunately.