And the article provides evidence of that, cutting neighboring counties in Tennessee with similar vaccination rates where one had a 23% lower making rate, but similar spread. How can that be? Truly fascinating.
There's more to this than vaccination and masking rate. When we're talking about being indoors all day, one other variable in this is ventilation. For their part, the CDC does suggest considering improving ventilation in buildings. Vaccination is probably the best single tool we have and if everyone who could have been vaccinated was, we'd be in a different situation. However, with so many refusing, you have to get into the minutia about wearing masks, sitting certain distance apart, ventilation, etc., but people aren't good about going into the minutia or dealing with the fact that people in different situations (like different building with different ventilation) should behave differently.
Even knowing this, a lot of places simply don't want to spend money on infrastructure, including improving schools.
There's more to this than vaccination and masking rate. When we're talking about being indoors all day, one other variable in this is ventilation. For their part, the CDC does suggest considering improving ventilation in buildings. Vaccination is probably the best single tool we have and if everyone who could have been vaccinated was, we'd be in a different situation. However, with so many refusing, you have to get into the minutia about wearing masks, sitting certain distance apart, ventilation, etc., but people aren't good about going into the minutia or dealing with the fact that people in different situations (like different building with different ventilation) should behave differently.
Even knowing this, a lot of places simply don't want to spend money on infrastructure, including improving schools.
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