Coronavirus super-spreaders: Who -- or where -- are they?
As the province settles into phase one of its reopening framework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses, services and communal spaces in Ontario are beginning to welcome the public once again. Ontario is open for business – at least in part – which means the risk of community transmission of the coronavirus could increase, simply because there are more people in more spaces. For the first time in several weeks, citizens are able to enter certain retailers, visit their dentist, have their homes cleaned – but is there data to tell us what locations are the most risky in terms of exposure to the virus? Should we be looking at locations, instead of people, as super-spreaders of the disease? Will visiting a crowded supermarket put you at more risk than visiting a clinician’s office? Paul McDonald, dean of the Faculty of Health at York University, says it’s not a simple yes or no. Read more in this YFile story.