Exploration of the Effectiveness of Social Distancing on Respiratory Pathogen Transmission Implicates Environmental Contributions

摘要

Respiratory pathogen transmission is multifactoral with person-to- person aerosolized fomite and environmental contribution is usually difficult to determine the effect of each of these on disease transmission dynamics and on interventions. The high controllable military recruit training environment is an ideal setting for further exploration and understanding of these dynamic respiratory illness (FRI) rates consistently hover at epidemic levels. The living space population size introduction of potent individuals and pathogen environmental burden in a military recruit training environment were measured relative to FRI rat not affected by closing distinct populations to potentially infectious convalescents. A positive association was found between FRI rates. We also found that the units and the local medical clinic were heavily environmentally contaminated with adenovirus imply that the endemic source of the pathogen is primarily environmental rather than person to person but population size rates by maintaining both the environmental reservoir and opportunities for person-to-person transmission. Continued diligence environmental sources in civilian populations is warranted and it is suggested that the rationale and strategies for social distance sources into account.