[BostonCard]

The Texas Medical Association recently released a graphic listing many common activities and their risk for getting coronavirus. 

[tweet]https://www.twitter.com/texmed/status/1279046501054980096[/tweet]

This assumes participants take all possible safety precautions. 

Anything look particularly out of place?  I feel that sitting in a doctor's waiting room should be riskier... unless they've taken precautions to reduce occupancy.   Why is visiting an elderly relative's house more risky than eating at someone else's house?  I'd think those should be reversed.  Unless an elderly relative's house is a nursing home. 

I wonder where playing catch (baseball,  football or frisbee,  ) would rank.  An outdoor activity with plenty of spacing but a shared object.

Risk can reflect probability of catching COVID-19 or the probability of passing COVID-19 as well as the probability of leading to a serious or fatal case.  Thus, I think visiting an elderly relative is risky because of the chance you infect them and they get very sick or die.

That being said, the infographic says “know your risk”, so that doesn’t support my theory.

Goose, the graphic says that this was “ranked by physicians from the TMA COVID-19 task force”. In other words, this is expert opinion, and thus, though hopefully informed by data, the ranking was not based solely on data.

BC

[BostonCard]

The Texas Medical Association recently released a graphic listing many common activities and their risk for getting coronavirus. 

[tweet]https://www.twitter.com/texmed/status/1279046501054980096[/tweet]

This assumes participants take all possible safety precautions. 

Anything look particularly out of place?  I feel that sitting in a doctor's waiting room should be riskier... unless they've taken precautions to reduce occupancy.   Why is visiting an elderly relative's house more risky than eating at someone else's house?  I'd think those should be reversed.  Unless an elderly relative's house is a nursing home. 

I wonder where playing catch (baseball,  football or frisbee,  ) would rank.  An outdoor activity with plenty of spacing but a shared object.

Risk can reflect probability of catching COVID-19 or the probability of passing COVID-19 as well as the probability of leading to a serious or fatal case.  Thus, I think visiting an elderly relative is risky because of the chance you infect them and they get very sick or die.

That being said, the infographic says “know your risk”, so that doesn’t support my theory.

Goose, the graphic says that this was “ranked by physicians from the TMA COVID-19 task force”. In other words, this is expert opinion, and thus, though hopefully informed by data, the ranking was not based solely on data.

BC