Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp...
by wutbrodo on Saturday May 15, 2021 @05:21AM
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Very interesting, thank you. Call it Gell-Mann Amnesia, but I had not thought to extend my skepticism of the basic competence of public health authorities to flu recommendations. I suppose my model is that they were bad in the fast-moving epistemic environment of the pandemic, and that this wouldn't extend to relatively stable and well-understood cases like influenza.
I watched Contagion for the first time last week, and they had the same attitude toward fomites, where it was spread through knobs and cash registers.
I’m convinced that the movie was interpreted as a documentary on what to do rather than science.
Now I question how much hand-washing helps prevent the spread of other respiratory viruses.
Looks like, for flu, in this study, fomites were responsible for 4% of cases:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121424/
… and
> Mask wearing is much more useful than hand washing for control of influenza A in the tested office setting. Regular cleaning of high-touch surfaces, which can reduce the infection risk by 2.14%, is recommended and is much more efficient than hand-washing.
But I’m just a guy that spent 2 minutes searching studies on Google of respiratory viruses, why make decisions so easily based on that when you can base decisions on a movie on Netflix.