Images of crowded beaches, lakes and bars have been circulating on social and classical media for much of the summer, causing contempt for those involved in the spread of coronavirus among those crowds.
The growing number of small meeting instance groups is smaller but also worrying.
Contact studies provide data on infection resources as the United States, so far the world leader in COVID-19 cases and deaths, continues to find a way to keep its population safe while supporting a declining economy. More than 180,000 Americans have died from the disease.
The hasty reopening of businesses in much of the country after the close of spring was largely attributed to a sudden increase in infections, but it seems that social purposes of other sizes among parents, friends and colleagues were also a contributing factor.
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People don’t think about it the same way as The Trump (President) rally in Tulsa, an organization of other people on the beach or in bars, yet those small occasions go up a lot. It’s simply invisible,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who specializes in infectious diseases.
Sometimes there is no accepted definition of what a small collection is (it can range from five to 30 more people) and the vast majority of those activities are done behind closed doors. This makes it difficult to collect concrete knowledge about them.
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Last July, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said tactile search revealed that 44 percent of the other people who tested positive for the virus in the state reported attending a circle of family members and 23% to a home party, but the duration of unspecified occasions.
However, there is sufficient anecdotal evidence that meeting with other people outdoors at home immediately, even in a fairly limited number, can cause a rash of infections. Chin-Hong said many of the COVID patients he had treated think they had stuck the virus on the barbecues.
The weddings were even more embarrassing, adding an occasion of 100 guests in San Francisco in early July that allowed at least 10 other people to contract the virus, adding the bride and groom.
Smaller occasions, such as family and graduation parties, have also produced cases of COVID-19.
In Alabama, 8 of the 11 parents who visited a lake in combination in July tested positive for coronavirus.
In the Washington, D.C. area, a garden dinner in June for about 25 others came here with COVID-19, as did some of his guests.
And in Houston, seven members of the circle of relatives who went out to eat for Father’s Day developed COVID-19.
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“Small meetings are a fear because there are so many. They can be a much larger number of cases than we think of late,” said Dr. George Rutherford, Chin-Hong’s ucSF colleague and principal investigator of the California Contact Research Program.
Rutherford, under pressure, wants those who make plans to attend or organize occasions on Labor Day weekend to practice social estrangement and wear masks as much as possible, however, she is even more wary of what will be in the store after Thanksgiving.
Historically, extended families gather during those holidays, occasionally after traveling from afar, and sit for long periods, whether dining or watching NFL games on television. Dinners are almost held indoors, where limited ventilation facilitates the contraction of the virus.
“Everyone’s going to be there with their belts unbuttoned and the most sensible thing about their pants, snoring loudly and lying without a mask to watch football in a little lair,” Rutherford said. “It’s not a fair picture. There may be a lot of transmission. And Christmas will be exactly the same. It’s a shame, but it’s not the year of the family reunion circle.”
Given human nature, however, it is almost to save them.
Dr. Matt Lambert, an emergency doctor in Washington, D.C., said he would advise 25 other people not to gather, small enough for visitors to ask about symptoms before the event.
Or those who gather for special events can simply take excessive measures, such as the couple Lambert heard about hosting their wedding at a zoo, and the staff applies estrangement rules.
Even then, it’s hard to separate people.
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“We’re not made that way,’’ Lambert said. “You get extended loved ones together, especially at a wedding, and there’s going to be some hugging going on.’’
Lambert claimed that he had treated patients who had contracted the virus at a dinner with only 8 participants, noted that the party had taken internal position and that visitors were sitting next to each other.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have posted guidelines for gatherings, and Chin-Hong said relatively safe barbecues can be held if both the hosts and guests take precautions.
He noted that, in addition to the use of the mask, the main determinants of the threat when other people gather are the duration of the group, the type and duration of the activity, where it is located (inside or outside), whether alcohol is served, if there is screaming. or make a song and how well the participants know each other.
Chin-Hong advised not to invite more than two or 3 groups, each belonging to the same household, and let them remain on their own “coasts”, at least six feet away from the other participants. The occasion will be outdoors, with a hand sanitizer available, and a host dressed in a mask serves food or the members of each group can serve themselves while staying away from each other. Anyone who wears the bathroom will have to wear a mask.
“It’s smart to have fried fish if you do it in a modest way and think about those facets of threat of keeping the pods separate from the others,” Chin-Hong said. “I don’t object at all to fish frying, but you can make it safer if you don’t host a big event. Don’t check to organize an elegant fried fish assembly yet.”