c) The questions asked of this report are: i) What is your background and expertise related to COVID-19 and its transmission? ii) What are the dangers of COVID-19, including dangers of variants? iii) What are the modes of transmission of COVID-19 and the risk factors for COVID-19 transmission? iv) How does the public health risk of permitting places of worship to open compare to the public health. [...] i) This included a significant amount of work around the transmission and management of COVID-19 in congregate settings, which provided experience on the spread of COVID-19 in indoor settings, and the management of transmission events from both staff and patients. [...] j) On top of the risks of transmission within a facility due to masking and physical distancing, the amount of COVID cases in the community also affect the risk of transmission. [...] as a method to reduce the user’s shedding of aerosols and droplets to the environment), rather, the study only looked at the use of masking as personal protective equipment (i.e as a method to block aerosols and droplets from being inhaled by the user), which significantly underestimates the effect of masking on the overall reduction of transmission. [...] Kettner tries to approximate risk of infectivity by describing the local context of COVID-19, and approximating that to the risk of an individual being asymptomatic or presymptomatic on the day of attending a congregation.
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