At a superspreading event one infects many. The inverse would be many infecting one. And that is what seems to have happened in a prison in Vermont. The Wall Street Journal writes : Federal health officials changed the definition of a close contact of a Covid-19 case, after a Vermont prison officer tested positive following several brief encounters with infected inmates. The officer, a 20-year-old man, never was within 6 feet of any of the prisoners for 15 or more consecutive minutes, according to a report on the case by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Vermont Department of Health posted Wednesday. After publishing the report online, the CDC altered its definition of a close contact, saying it is now someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period. The previous definition was anyone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes. “In the end, you just need to inhale e...

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Neal Pollack asks an interesting question:   I’ve been looking, very hard, for any reported evidence, because I don’t want even vaguely encourage people to make a deadly choice. But there hasn’t been one reported COVID-related death to movie theater attendance anywhere in the world. There hasn’t even been a reported case of COVID. Not a symptomatic case. Not an asymptomatic case. Nothing.   How can that be possible? Movie theaters aren’t open in Los Angeles or New York right now, but they are open most other places. Seventy percent of all screens in the United States are operating, not at full capacity, but available for customers. The coronavirus hasn’t gone away. So where are the cases? Not one case in six months. Nine months, really, when you consider that the plague started in China in December. Again, how can that be possible?   Read more .      There are no movie theater superspreading events in the database .    Yet:   the...