How the beach āsuper-spreaderā myth may have hampered UK Covid reaction | World news | The Guardian
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āWe have known for some time that only about 10% of transmission events are linked to outdoor activities,ā said Dr MĆ¼ge Ćevik, a lecturer in infectious diseases and medical virology at the University of St Andrews.
āEven those events generally involve either prolonged close contact or a mixture of indoor and outdoor time. We had a lot of existing knowledge even when the pandemic began about respiratory viruses and how they transmit in general, and everything directs us to the conditions in peopleās homes and workplaces.ā
Nobody disputes that there were some possible knock-on risks during the heatwave, on crowded trains or overused toilets ā and the traffic jams and litter the crowds brought had a very real effect on local residentsā quality of life.