This article summarizes a study that showed that most of the people still testing positive in San Francisco are essential workers. What is interesting, however, is that nothing is mentioned about the mortality and severe disease/hospitalization rate 1/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/28/sobering-finding-covid19-struck-mostly-low-wage-essential-workers-san-francisco/?fbclid=IwAR3rFuex0uSFFKzjciI252WrbKqBzx7osFh5A0ftEA21VQ7Wsd4WWdfuHNc">https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/2...
Whereas NY governor Cuomo recently wondered why around 80% of the hospitalised in NYC were those who had been sheltering in place. 2/
So, is it really the spread of the infection that is the problem or the contexts in which one is likely to get a high viral dose, like large-sized households in small apartments, nursing homes, etc.? It increasingly seems that the latter 3/
The best way to handle C19 is to get people to spend as much time as possible outside, boost indoor ventilation, shield nursing homes and probably avoid inter-generational cohabitation as much as possible 4/4