A wedding dinner in early October a Pavia it turned into an outbreak that infected 48 people in all. There were 34 wedding guests: 21 they got infected and, not knowing yet that they are positive, they have past the virus to family members and work colleagues. In all, another 27 people. The case, described in Corriere della Sera by Maicol Andrea Rossi, trainee in Hygiene and preventive medicine at the epidemiological observatory of Vercelli, makes it clear how the meetings between relatives and friends can be important sources of contagion from Covid-19, especially during the winter period. In one place closed, with more people around a table that take away the mask to eat and stay together with long, the air quickly fills with droplets, the droplets of saliva that “carry” the virus.
“The conviviality is dangerous“, He stressed Fabrizio Faggiano, professor of Translational Medicine at the University of Eastern Piedmont. “When we eat and drink the mask is pulled down, we tend to talk closer and maybe to raise the voice because there is chatter in the hall ”. In the case of marriage, the 62% of the participants tested positive. It all started with a guest who after the party begins to develop the typical symptoms of Covid: temperature, cough, loss of taste e smell. The swab then confirmed the suspicions of positivity. The ASL of Vercelli, who conducted the contact tracing and epidemiological analysis, therefore quickly discovered that the half of the participants at the wedding had developed symptoms.
The problem is that before discovering the diagnosis, the 21 positives infected themselves 13 family members. Among them a child who infects at school other 2 companions. A teacher, invited to the wedding dinner, is infected 2 colleagues e 3 students. In total, an outbreak of nearly 50 people. It all happened in about ten days. “For this reason – underlined Faggiano – we must not give in to social occasions, where the virus circulates with extreme ease. Welcome the restrictions“, He concluded.
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