This is a very interesting article on the spread of the virus.Not just Australia but worldwide.Some very interesting thoughts such as clusters in rich areas are not necessarily due to bad behaviour but more likely due to the lower immunity of the rich with their pampered upbringing as against lower socio economic groups who are exposed to a much wider variety of infectious agents.
"It is theoretically possible that socioeconomically privileged individuals really do lack some immune-response mechanism that protects individuals who have been exposed to a wider array of infectious pathogens. A recent
report on COVID-19 surveillance testing at a Boston homeless shelter, for instance, contained the stunning disclosure that 36 percent of 408 screened individuals tested positive for COVID-19. Yet the vast majority were asymptomatic, and even the few who were symptomatic did not diverge statistically from the 64 percent of tested individuals who were COVID-19-negative. "
Interesting as well that he concludes flying is not a common source of infection.He cites the case of an infected NZ FA who didn't have any known cases on the flights he took but spread the disease at a wedding reception.
"It’s similarly notable that airplanes don’t seem to be common sites for known SSEs, notwithstanding the sardine-like manner in which airlines transport us and the ample opportunity that the industry’s bureaucracy offers for contact tracing. I have been made aware of a Vietnamese woman who apparently
spread infection on a flight. And New Zealand has one cluster that’s based around an infected but asymptomatic flight attendant. But the many known infections he caused took place
at a wedding reception, not in an airplane. This flight attendant was running what was, in effect, an unintended experiment, with the passengers on board his aircraft playing the role of control group. And the results offer a microcosm of the nature of SSEs as a whole. "
Certainly worth a read.
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