The seating chart makes it especially clear that defining a “close contact” as “within six feet for more than 15 minutes” is absurdly insufficient in the context of (1) an indoor space and (2) the Delta variant. Being close is worse but indoors the whole room is at risk.
https://twitter.com/drjengunter/status/1431371330616651778
The above kind of story is why I cringe every time I see a press conference or other event in which everyone is masked EXCEPT the speaker at the front. You create the most droplets and aerosols when you’re speaking — that’s when you need the mask MOST!
The official advice is “masks work best when everyone is wearing them.” They can be helpful protection for uninflected people to wear but they’re MOST helpful as source control: worn by infected people. With Delta, most transmissions happen BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR. Please mask up.
*uninfected
(I’m not sure what an “uninflected” person would be. Very monotone? Anyway that would not impact virus transmission as far as I know.)
(I’m not sure what an “uninflected” person would be. Very monotone? Anyway that would not impact virus transmission as far as I know.)
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