Coronavirus In Minnesota: How Does Indoor Transmission Compare To Outdoor Transmission?

From CBS Minnesota:

By Heather Brown

September 1, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Monday, the Minnesota Department of Health warned that informal gatherings are becoming a weak spot in the state’s fight against COVID-19.

Kris Ehresmann, MDH’s director of infectious diseases, says the department doesn’t currently collect data on whether the transmission happens indoors or outdoors — but there’s a big worry about what happens when cold weather arrives.

“That’s one of the concerns that we have is if we’re not really attentive to the details when we can be outside and in a good situation, what’s going to happen when we’re stuck inside?” Ehresmann said. “When we’ve talked about the value of the outdoors, people have taken that to mean that outdoors are somehow safe and without risk. That’s not the case.”

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