It’s looking likely the national state of emergency gets extended, possibly for months depending on the degree of attainment on reducing human-to-human contact.https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200429/amp/k10012410881000.html?__twitter_impression=true …
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I appreciate that contact is an easy thing to measure, but I worry it's measuring the wrong thing. Studies like the South Korean call center study make me think that prolonged close quarters are way more important to spread than brief close contact.
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That's part of why schools are a huge part of epidemics; they're also a contagion path independent of commuting, working, and shopping, which lets the disease pass back and forth between different groups. (And why Newsom shouldn't be opening CA schools in July.)
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