From the New York Post:
The CDC is greatly exaggerating the risk of COVID-19 transmission outdoors, claiming there is a roughly 10 percent chance — when in reality the figure is less than 1 percent.
The higher federal figure “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” Dr. Muge Cevik, a top infectious disease doctor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, told the New York Times.
Dr. Aaron Richterman of the University of Pennsylvania added, “I’m sure it’s possible for transmission to occur outdoors in the right circumstances. But if we had to put a number on it, I would say much less than 1 percent.
“Saying that less than 10 percent of Covid transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year. (The actual worldwide number is around 150.) It’s both true and deceiving,” The Times wrote.
At issue is the research cited by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in touting its outdoor transmission statistic, which put the figure at a murky and allegedly too high “less than 10 percent.”
The figure is key because the agency has used it to justify its current coronavirus safety recommendations to the public, which include vaccinated people still wearing masks at “large public venues’’ and the unvaccinated using the face gear in most outdoor settings.
Now not only is the ‘less than 10 percent’ bullshit nothing more than just that (bullshit), when a comparison is made between where resources are applied to address COVID, we see this:
Friggin idiots. Lets ‘Dick and Jane’ our way through these numbers: the casualty rate is roughly .07 and the infection rate outdoors is ‘much less than than 1 %’ , so that’s like .05. The probability of dying from an outdoor transmission then is somewhere around .0035. To remedy this these idiots force everyone indoors where 99.5 percent of the transmissions occur. Who is running this show? Cuomo?