You can reduce your contact, but what about your contacts contacts?
How many people is the person serving in the grocery store coming into contact with?
How strict are they all with their precautions?
What about other members of the same household and all their contacts?
The recommended distance between people may not be sufficient to prevent transmission.
It’s easy to break the distance rule (might just be a second or two even if being v. careful).
Fomite transmission (inanimate carrier of infectious diseases)
Pre-(noticed) symptomatic transmissions. What if someone has a fever during the night, how many people would notice it/associate it with COVID? (It always amazes me the denial some people can have about their symptoms.)
QUESTION - has anyone come across data about duration of a COVID-fever? (although there’s a massive potential for variability between individuals so not sure the data would actually be useful/representative/meaningful but it’d be good to have whatever information is out there...)
All these points make sense. But aren’t they also (with the exception of the one about members of the same household) subject to the logic that they reduce roughly proportionally to reduced contacts? For instance, even in the unlikely case my contacts’ contacts are not reducing, I am still reducing contacts with my contacts’ contacts by reducing contacts with my contacts.
Some first thoughts:
It only takes one person to infect you.
You can reduce your contact, but what about your contacts contacts?
How many people is the person serving in the grocery store coming into contact with?
How strict are they all with their precautions?
What about other members of the same household and all their contacts?
The recommended distance between people may not be sufficient to prevent transmission.
It’s easy to break the distance rule (might just be a second or two even if being v. careful).
Fomite transmission (inanimate carrier of infectious diseases)
Pre-(noticed) symptomatic transmissions. What if someone has a fever during the night, how many people would notice it/associate it with COVID? (It always amazes me the denial some people can have about their symptoms.)
QUESTION - has anyone come across data about duration of a COVID-fever? (although there’s a massive potential for variability between individuals so not sure the data would actually be useful/representative/meaningful but it’d be good to have whatever information is out there...)
All these points make sense. But aren’t they also (with the exception of the one about members of the same household) subject to the logic that they reduce roughly proportionally to reduced contacts? For instance, even in the unlikely case my contacts’ contacts are not reducing, I am still reducing contacts with my contacts’ contacts by reducing contacts with my contacts.