[2006alum]

That's really encouraging news. It would be interesting to know whether most of the people who got haircuts were not among the high risk groups. If not, and if everyone wore a mask, avoided touching their mouth, nose, or eyes, etc., then it's possible that these partial mitigation efforts can go a long way towards reducing the spread.

But if that's true, it does make me wonder how the R0 is still not creeping below 1 in many places, since I would have thought the "barber with coronavirus" scenario would have all the makings of a superspreader event.

[2006alum]

That's really encouraging news. It would be interesting to know whether most of the people who got haircuts were not among the high risk groups. If not, and if everyone wore a mask, avoided touching their mouth, nose, or eyes, etc., then it's possible that these partial mitigation efforts can go a long way towards reducing the spread.

But if that's true, it does make me wonder how the R0 is still not creeping below 1 in many places, since I would have thought the "barber with coronavirus" scenario would have all the makings of a superspreader event.