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Very interesting, thanks. I think it's 13% of tests, not 13% of entire population of 6'169, so not 832.
I don't speak Italian and struggle to find any details. Actually they didn't mention that all 2'000 samples were processed. On 5th April the mayor of the town posted a photo of newspaper mentioning "29% of 38 persons" positive. So I would not be surprised if they have taken blood from 2'000 people, processed 100 of them so far and this results got it to newspaper.
Very promising (we get more test data!), but I wouldn't draw any conclusions on this yet.
I'm trying to make some educated guess about the situation, but it looks like the data are very lacking. Could someone validate my logic please?
1. Some people claim that SARS-CoV-19 could have been around for ages, "everybody's bad flu last autumn was this thing" and basically nothing is happening except panic. People are dying not because of the virus, but because everybody is going to hospitals making them overcrowded. People dying of other reasons just happen to also have almost-harmless COVID-19. When I've heard this couple weeks ago I chuckled, then gave it a second thought and decided that it could be possible, though unlikely. Now, given we have some antibody tests... (read 457 more words →)
Don't know about percentage of filtered droplets/aerosol in both directions, but I would guess the reasons include:
1. A mask doesn't protect your eyes
2. You are likely to touch contaminated outer surface of your mask (and then touch your mouth, scratch your eye etc and get infected), but other people probably won't touch the inner surface of your mask.