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To: Thud
Some good news:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3826909/posts?page=1

from link:

Dr. Paul Auwaerter, the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [finds]: If you have a COVID-19 patient in your household, your risk of developing the infection is about 10%….If you were casually exposed to the virus in the workplace (e.g., you were not locked up in conference room for six hours with someone who was infected [like a hospital]), your chance of infection is about 0.5%

According to Dr. Auwaerter, these transmission rates are very similar to the seasonal flu.

As to asymptomatic spread:

The majority of cases see symptoms within a few days, not two weeks as originally believed.

This is great news! (for most of us - people who don't work in a hospital...


1,115 posted on 03/21/2020 10:19:23 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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To: GOPJ
The comment about "If you have a COVID-19 patient in your household, your risk of developing the infection is about 10%" is ridiculous. Were it true, the virus would have an R0 of less than 1, and would not be spreading. If all family members were taking massive precautions to avoid infection, and the only possible transmission was aerosol, then the 10% might be correct.
1,116 posted on 03/21/2020 10:40:52 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: GOPJ

Well now they are just flat out lying. Noone said it took two weeks to develop symptoms.


1,130 posted on 03/22/2020 9:57:20 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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