On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 09:30 AM, WillyTex wrote:
Studies are always done to confirm common sense.
Not always.
According to The New York Times, when Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director, appeared before a Senate committee this month and defended the agency's description of how often Covid-19 is transmitted outdoors, she cited a single academic study. Go figure.
The study's results suggested that the share of Covid occurring outdoors was "much lower than 10 percent." The central message of the paper, Razani wrote, was the relative safety of the outdoors. YMMV.
Walensky has taken a conservative approach to the pandemic. ?Better that than calling it a hoax and manipulating the CDC and the data to mislead the people. ?
"Study" is a big word. ?Did you read that the study was actually a review of other reported findings? ?
"It was instead a literal description of the other research. Most studies in the review found the share to be below 1 percent. But there was one study that somebody might interpret as suggesting the share of Covid transmission occurring outdoors was close to 10 percent."
Apparently, her mistake was in thinking of it as a meta-analysis which provides a "summary" number instead of a summary of different individual findings. ?Do?you really think she did this on purpose to mislead everyone? ?Get real. ?We aren't dealing with the Rump Administration?anymore. ??
Now, what I said was that "studies are always done to confirm common sense." ?This fully confirms my statement. ?The study/review confirms that transmission is lower outdoors than indoors¡ªcommon sense. ?
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