Which Interventions Stop CoVid Spread
from Dr. Howard Smith OnCall Hosted by Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/huM7v68jnQg Closing schools turns out to be the single best non-pharmaceutical way to halt CoVid. This the conclusion of an international collaborative meta-analysis by university number crunchers in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. The data from 41 countries show that school closings have a 58% effectiveness, restricting gatherings to 10 or fewer 24%, closing non-essential businesses 23%, closing high risk businesses 19%, testing those with respiratory symptoms 18%, and stay at home orders 17%. We have a dilemma: kids attending school then bring CoVid home and transmit it to multiple generations including the vulnerable. Yet closed schools equals closed workplaces. The solution: testing all children and their contacts. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20116129v1.full.pdf #covid #schools #children #work #testing
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