Covid has enabled the spread of contagion theory.<\/p>\n
n the US, people without children in their house typically spend a few weeks of the year infected with viruses; people with one child have an infection for about a third of the year; and those with two children will on average carry viruses more often than not.<\/p>\n
Byington C.L. et al., \u2018Community Surveillance of Respiratory Viruses Among Families in the Utah Better Identification of Germs-Longitudinal Viral Epidemiology (BIG-LoVE) Study\u2019, Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em>, 2015.<\/p>\n “The red-blue divide in the US in the light of contagion\/network studies”<\/p>\n There is a long-standing paradox in medicine: people who have a heart attack or stroke while surrounded by relatives take longer to get medical care. (Dhand A., \u2018Social networks and risk of delayed hospital arrival after acute stroke\u2019, Nature Communications<\/em>, 2019)<\/p>\n Centola D., How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2018).<\/p>\n Bayesian probability – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confirmation_bias<\/a><\/p>\n Bayesian inference – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n