Florida spring-breakers test positive for coronavirus

Caitlin O'Kane 11 mins ago

At least five students from the University of Tampa have tested positive for coronavirus after traveling with other students from the school for spring break, the university announced on Twitter. This comes after crowds of spring-breakers in Florida were criticized for ignoring social distancing guidelines and packing beaches in complete disregard of the potential risk.

University of Tampa announced on Friday that it learned that one student, who resides off-campus, tested positive for the virus. Just a day later, the school confirmed that five students, who were part of a larger group traveling together during spring break, had tested positive.

The school moved all of its classes to online instruction on March 17, but some students were still in close contact with each other over spring break and in the school's residential halls, which are still open.

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[color="Red"]Brady Sluder, one of the young people in the video, said, "whatever happens happens" — showing little concern about the virus.
"If I get corona, I get corona," Sluder said. "At the end of the day, I'm not going to let it stop me from partying. I've been waiting, we've been waiting for Miami spring break for a while. About two months we've had this trip planned, two, three months, and we're just out here to having a good time."

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[color="SeaGreen"]"This big idea of social distancing, we can't hammer it home enough," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula said on "CBS This Morning" last week. "This comes down to something we call the reproduction factor — that's how infectious I am. So if I [hypothetically] have the disease, I can spread it, we think with coronavirus, to three people."

"That reproduction number is affected by the virus properties itself, who is susceptible, but also the duration of contact with individuals and the number of people you contact," Narula said. Decreasing the number of people you contact and the duration can significantly slow down the spread of the virus, she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-spring-breakers-test-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-BB11Ac0E?ocid=spartanntp

What turd world "doctor" doesn't say is that the infection rate isn't an exact time line as to how many people who are susceptible to the virus will be infected per unit of time:

n epidemiology, the basic reproduction number (sometimes called basic reproductive ratio, or incorrectly basic reproductive rate, and denoted R0, pronounced R nought or R zero[16]) of an infection can be thought of as the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection.[17] The definition describes the state where no other individuals are infected or immunized (naturally or through vaccination). Some definitions, such as that of the Australian Department of Health, add absence of "any deliberate intervention in disease transmission".[18] The basic reproduction number is not to be confused with the effective reproduction number R which is the number of cases generated in the current state of a population, which does not have to be the uninfected state. By definition R0 cannot be modified through vaccination campaigns. Also it is important to note that R0 is a dimensionless number and not a rate, which would have units of time[19] like doubling time[20].

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Now for infection rate:

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An infection rate (or incident rate) is the probability or risk of an infection in a population. It is used to measure the frequency of occurrence of new instances of infection within a population during a specific time period.

The number of infections equals the cases identified in the study or observed. An example might by HIV infection during a specific time period in the defined population. The population at risk are the cases appearing in the population during the same time period. An example would be all the people in a city during a specific time period. The constant, or K is assigned a value of 100 to represent a percentage. An example would be to find the percentage of people in a city who are infected with HIV: 6,000 cases in March divided by the population of a city (one million) multiplied by the constant (K) would give an infection rate of 0.6%. . Calculating the infection rate is used to analyze trends for the purpose of infection and disease control.[1]
An online infection rate calculator has been developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allows the determination of the Streptococcal A infection rate in a population.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_rate

It seems turd world "doctor" is parroting whatever (((the MSM))) wants it to say. The dot head looks like its referencing reproduction rate as it is defined.

I can't say for certain that everything the (((MSM))) comes out with is bogus because it just is not. However IF the reproduction rate for the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 is somewhere between 1: ~ 2 or 3 then some people are going to get into a panic since the virus SEEMS to have an exponential rise in rate of infection. IF "experts" start predicting that by day 60 of the infection in the kwa, based on a reproduction rate I posted above, I take exception with this because of the accepted definitions and limitations of the reproductive rate vs. infection rate. I have seen conflicting data on the number of citizens in the kwa will be infected and until I see several good, unbiased studies in peer reviewed journals then I'll be wary of any projection of what percent of the kwa will be infected by the COVID-19 causative virus.

And, IF the virus being investigated has transmitted to the spring breakers, the cavalier attitude which seems to be rampant with individuals in universities between the ages of 18 - 23 (estimated) then who is acting irresponsibly???