Bombshell study finds most outbreaks in China were from family indoors and … mass transit

[txradioguy]

More than five weeks into this crisis and with hundreds of thousands of cases to study, our government has still declined to offer more information and data on the nature of the viral transmission. It’s all guesswork and assumption. However, the results of recent studies from other countries raise serious questions about the lockdown strategy of Western countries. It turns out keeping people inside and shutting down everything except mass transit might be the most counterproductive epidemiology strategy imaginable.

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tion. A new study published last week of China’s outbreaks in January and February lends credence to this concern.

The five Chinese researchers studied 318 clusters of cases in 120 cities from all over China (with the exception of Hubei province, which had the original outbreak) and found that home outbreaks contributed to 79.9 percent of the cases, followed by mass transit, which contributed to 34 percent of the outbreaks. The outbreak venues were divided into six categories: homes, transport, food, entertainment, shopping, and miscellaneous. Some outbreaks had several overlapping contributing environments. 7,324 total cases were scrutinized in the study of 318 outbreaks, which were defined as three or more persons infected at one venue.

Only a single outbreak was attributed to an outdoor environment, which involved two cases. It stemmed from a 27-year-old man in the village of Shangqiu, Henan, having a conversation outdoors “with an individual who had returned from Wuhan on 25 January and had the onset of symptoms on 1 February.”

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-bombshell-study-finds-outbreaks-china-family-indoors-mass-transit/

[PeteS in CA]

People together in close quarters for significant time periods. Common sense, to some degree.