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[UK] RISK FACTOR Supermarkets are most common place to catch Covid, new data reveals
The Sun UK ^ | 19 Nov 2020 | Terri-Ann Williams

Posted on 11/19/2020 9:08:01 PM PST by blueplum

Supermarkets have remained open during both national lockdowns and new data collated by Public Health England (PHE) from the NHS Test and Trace App has revealed that shops are the most frequent Covid exposure setting...They looked at the contacts of those who had caught the virus and retraced the steps of 128,808 people who tested positive.

Of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket...

It was revealed that 12.7 per cent of those who tested positive had attended secondary school and 10.1 per cent had attended a primary school...[however, pre-school accounted for only 1.6%]

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; covid; uk
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By contrast, those UK folks who reported visiting a restaurant had a positivity rate of 1.0%, going to a gym 1.1% and patronizing a bar 1.6%. We don't know how this stacks up to US experience, because we don't have any such data. But closing bars, gyms and restaurants doesn't seem to make much sense given the data from the UK.

Why would supermarkets be 10x higher risk than pre-schools? Most likely, cashiers and stockers are subject to repeated exposures at work. According to an article in the Daily Mail, cashiers and stockers in the UK who were contact traced (and by default, grocery pickers/ delivery drivers??) are 20x more likely to contract covid, 75% of which are asymptomatic. Which would seem to co-relate with the findings in the Sun article.

Super Spreaders

1 posted on 11/19/2020 9:08:01 PM PST by blueplum
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Of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket...

The hell you say. Who needs to go grocery shopping?

How many people victims have drunk water since the outbreak began? THERE'S your culprit. We must ban drinking water!

Up is down. Black is white. Silenice is noise. Correlation is causation!

Morons.

2 posted on 11/19/2020 9:12:01 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: blueplum

Hey! I got an idea. Close the grocery stores. No food for you! For one year!


3 posted on 11/19/2020 9:13:04 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket...

And 100% who tested positive had drank water...

4 posted on 11/19/2020 9:13:53 PM PST by norcal joe
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To: Texas Eagle

It is probably due to breathing in the virus particulates.

If everyone would stop breathing, the problem would resolved itself.

/s


5 posted on 11/19/2020 9:14:11 PM PST by TomGuy ( )
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To: Texas Eagle

OMG who in hell doesn’t visit a supermarket 100% Of the population visits a supermarket these people are INSANE!!{


6 posted on 11/19/2020 9:15:03 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: blueplum

That’s it. Stay out of British Supermarkets!


7 posted on 11/19/2020 9:15:10 PM PST by Gman
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To: Texas Eagle

Hey! I got an idea. Close the grocery stores. No food for you! For one year!


Don’t laugh....

New Mexico IS closing grocery stores....

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3907602/posts


8 posted on 11/19/2020 9:17:34 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Gman

Only buy your food at convenience stores in England?


9 posted on 11/19/2020 9:18:07 PM PST by datura (If you have to cheat, you didn't’ win.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Coming to a state near you....

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3907602/posts


10 posted on 11/19/2020 9:18:15 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Texas Eagle

be nice now. I’m trying to present evidence that closing bars, gyms and restaurants is wrong-think. (and barring teens from supermarkets might be a better idea)


11 posted on 11/19/2020 9:19:50 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Jane Long

oh my goodness!! This is unreal!
My nephew and his wife live in NM and cannot go to AZ for Thanksgiving to be with my sister and brother in law. It is beyond stupid!!
God help us.


12 posted on 11/19/2020 9:20:05 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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Of those who tested positive, it was found that 18.3 per cent had visited a supermarket...

And they could get the same results even if none of those 18.3 percent actually caught the COVID at a supermarket. What a ridiculous report.

13 posted on 11/19/2020 9:20:09 PM PST by norcal joe
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Trust me, I'm not laughing. I quit my job at a hospital because I got tired of deep cleaning and sanitizing clinic exam rooms that tested people for covid.

Three guesses as to where I now work. And the first two don't count.

14 posted on 11/19/2020 9:22:23 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: pollywog

That NM Gov is as crazy as witch Witless, in MI.

Why can’t your nephew go to AZ?? Will they not be allowed back in to NM? By whom????


15 posted on 11/19/2020 9:23:01 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: datura

Only off the Food Trucks!


16 posted on 11/19/2020 9:23:07 PM PST by Gman
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To: Texas Eagle

A grocery store?


17 posted on 11/19/2020 9:24:58 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3907394/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3907602/posts


18 posted on 11/19/2020 9:25:11 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Jane Long

"Bingo."
19 posted on 11/19/2020 9:27:06 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: linMcHlp

Yep.

(Is there something I’m missing....since one of the links is the one I’ve already posted, upthread? Not being snarky, just confirming I’ve not missed something.)


20 posted on 11/19/2020 9:27:36 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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