Excellent interview on safety precautions for COVID-19 - Michael Osterholm

[diva77]

Fresh Air with Terry Gross - well worth listening to

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/879642351/assessing-covid-19-risk-as-the-u-s-reopens

Assessing COVID-19 Risk As The U.S. Reopens

With certain states loosening restrictions — and others partially in lockdown — there's a lot of widespread confusion about COVID-19 risks. We talk with University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about the safety concerns in terms of protests, indoor gatherings, touching surfaces, and why the antibody test is so flawed.

[dem4decades]

1. marked for later thanks

[Danascot]

2. Another relevant article

How Exactly Do You Catch Covid-19?

It’s not common to contract Covid-19 from a contaminated surface, scientists say. And fleeting encounters with people outdoors are unlikely to spread the coronavirus.

Instead, the major culprit is close-up, person-to-person interactions for extended periods. Crowded events, poorly ventilated areas and places where people are talking loudly—or singing, in one famous case—maximize the risk.

These emerging findings are helping businesses and governments devise reopening strategies to protect public health while getting economies going again. That includes tactics like installing plexiglass barriers, requiring people to wear masks in stores and other venues, using good ventilation systems and keeping windows open when possible.

Two recent large studies showed that wide-scale lockdowns—stay-at-home orders, bans on large gatherings and business closures—prevented millions of infections and deaths around the world. Now, with more knowledge in hand, cities and states can deploy targeted interventions to keep the virus from taking off again, scientists and public-health experts said.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-exactly-do-you-catch-covid-19-there-is-a-growing-consensus-11592317650?mod=flipboard

[diva77]

3. Thanks for posting. Interesting article; however...

...I am wary of exclusively getting scientific/medical info from newspaper sources since they often miss important facts & nuance.