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What is already known about this topic?
Large gatherings pose a high risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
What is added by this report?
A wedding reception with 55 persons in a rural Maine town led to COVID-19 outbreaks in the local community, as well as at a long-term care facility and a correctional facility in other counties. Overall, 177 COVID-19 cases were linked to the event, including seven hospitalizations and seven deaths (four in hospitalized persons). Investigation revealed noncompliance with CDCs recommended mitigation measures.
What are the implications for public health practice?
To mitigate transmission, persons should avoid large gatherings, practice physical distancing, wear masks, stay home when ill, and self-quarantine after exposure to a person with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a5.htm?s_cid=mm6945a5_w
Me.
(35,454 posts)Boomer
(4,159 posts)The overemphasis on fatalities is a mistake. It gives the mistaken impression that this is a binary option of full recovery versus a few deaths, and apparently many people are willing to take their chances with what they see as a low risk of dying (and don't give a fig about anyone else).
We should be emphasizing the much larger group of people who are left with long-term, possibly life-long, health conditions. The athlete who can't run up a flight of stairs anymore, the banker who can't think straight anymore, the dancer who is now a diabetic. The list of COVID-induced ailments that cause long-term disability are not getting enough publicity, because the risk of ending up in that group is MUCH higher than the risk of dying.
Me.
(35,454 posts)but one would prefer life over death, regardless of the lasting effects. And frankly the shock of death has value.
live love laugh
(13,007 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If 50 of the 176 people that the virus spread to died, then that would likely wake people up.
I personally dont know a single person who has died from COVID19. I had a niece test positive, but she never got sick. I recently tested negative after taking a test to take it. Until every American know someone who has died, the seriousness of the virus wont hit home the way it should. People need to be terrified for their own safety, and that terror must grip them every minute of every day.
Btw, I tested negative, but I wear a mask (properly) at all times when out of my home. I have NO intention of stop doing what I have done for months when in public. I even mask up at home if I have a guest.
lapucelle
(18,040 posts)I think my life would be ruined forever. It shouldn't be about fear. It should be about duty.
I haven't had a single guest or visitor in my home since March, including my adult children. I've seen my kids individually a handful of times, always outdoors, always at least 6 feet apart, always wearing masks.
My husband is a 9/11 survivor with related illnesses. We're doing it for him, as well as for ourselves.
Here's a second graphic from the study.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Almost half the people that voted filled the oval for a person that lies literally with every word, actively harmed defenseless people, did corrupt action after corrupt action to fill his own pockets with taxpayer money, lived in a fantasy world while a dangerous pathogens spread across the entire country. I just dont expect tens of millions of Americans to do the right thing unless they will directly, and surely personally suffer if they dont, a sad but true reality, IMO.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)does not motivate people as much as fear does. People worry about themselves more than about others. If you could convince them that masks help them to protect themselves, they would be more inclined to wear them.
George II
(67,782 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)KY...............
Marcuse
(7,398 posts)Stuart G
(38,363 posts)I was in a movie going stage...lots of movies in about 6 weeks...over 40 movies....So, I had heard this was
a very good one to see...so I went to see it ....The year,...1979....
Well after this scene...I think it was this one...I went to the back of the movie theater, and closed my
eyes through most of the rest of the movie...It still scares me to think about it, and I have seen it
a few times....Well after the video tape came out, then I went to get this one...and I stopped the tape
a bunch of times in order to get through it
...To be totally honest...Aliens (number 2 in the series) is much worse, and more frightening,
.........................but I won't go into that one either............................
...................................Be scared...if you watch either one....you will be..
Cha
(295,917 posts)lapucelle
(18,040 posts)Stay well and be safe!
Cha
(295,917 posts)all on President Elect Joe Biden & VP Elect Kamala Harris!