Posted on 12/14/2020 4:04:32 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The risk of catching the novel coronavirus from a family member is less than one in five, a new study suggests.
In a meta-analysis, researchers found that just 16.6 percent of all people with COVID-19 passed it on to members of their family.
More than one in three people spread the virus to their spouses.
What's more, when the infected person did not have symptoms such as cough, fever or shortness of breath, the transmission rate was just 0.7 percent.
The tam, from the University of Florida, says the results show that, because people with suspected or confirmed cases are told to isolate at home, people should consider wearing mask around family members who may have the virus....
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Isn’t one of the reasons why some people get a flu vaccine so they don’t get the flu from their spouse or kids?
If you have little chance to spread it to people you live with, you sleep and eat next to and do ... spousal things ... with all without a mask, why do we need them?
0.7% if you are in 7x24 indoor contact with an asymptotic infected person. And we need a mask when passing someone on the sidewalk outside?
The wife of one of my colleagues caught covid and ended up in the hospital. No one else in the family got it. He said “yes I do sleep with my wife.”
Yeah, well, both my spouse and I spent 2 weeks in quarantine because she got exposed to the virus by a co-worker. (Neither of us ended up with Covid, but we still had to quarantine.)
—Especially when they tell us we can spread it when we don’t even know we have it.
Presumably spouses spend a lot more time sleeping in the same bed when they both feel fine than when one feels like they have a cold and banishes themselves to the other room.
What about their mistresses?
There were at least 4 unique strains of Covid in the facility of the Baltimore Ravens during the outbreak
One of them is what swept through the players, staff, and families.
It sounds disgusting, but I wish someone would study masks to see if they contain traces of the dread virus ‘rona that spew out in public restrooms.
I take my mask off when I go in one.
I have not used a public restroom since covid.
I don’t know where they do their research, but they evidently didn’t look at my family or neighbors. For us, the infection rate is 100 percent between family members that live together. My daughter and grandson live together, and he brought it home and gave it to her. Same for my neighbors. He brought it home from work and gave it to his wife. He died Saturday morning.
Speaking as a married person, no.
Besides you are supposedly more infectious when you have just caught it before the symptoms start showing up. At least that is the way with every other virus.
So you would be smooching with your sugar woogums when you are the most infectious.
There is something very strange about all of this.
People need to hug more.
It’s actually 50%. You’re either gonna get it or not.
Nobody in my household caught it. You are most contagious 24 hrs before symptoms show. Wife and I slept together and then spent the day together before I came down with it.
So. Basically, people without symptoms don’t spread this disease.
What a shocker !
My nephew has it, but a couple of friends and his brother who visited him the day before he came down with symptoms tested negative...Seems this virus does not follow any set pattern.
In a meta-analysis, researchers found that just 16.6 percent of all people with COVID-19 passed it on to members of their family.
More than one in three people spread the virus to their spouses.
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Isn’t a spouse usually a member of the family?
So, if you’re not getting it at restaurants (1.4%) and you’re not getting it from your family (17%), neither of which are masked, it seems to me that wearing masks is the only method of transmission. Ergo-Masks KILL
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