Supermarkets are the most common place to catch Covid-19 in England

Pog

Pog

Well-known member
Supermarkets are the most frequent common exposure setting for those catching COVID-19 in England, new data suggests.

Public Health England (PHE) collated the data using the NHS Test and Trace app.

By analysing the contacts and retracing the steps of the 128,808 people who'd reported they had tested positive between 9 November and 15 November, PHE has uncovered where transmission is likely to be happening.

news.sky.com

COVID-19: Supermarkets most common places visited before positive test - latest data

PHE collated the data using the NHS Test and Trace app for people who tested positive between 9 and 15 November.
news.sky.com news.sky.com

82DF1C12-DCD9-4D9C-B296-C406DD7C080A.jpeg
 
No surprise really. Most people still go to a supermarket but not many (if any) of the other places on the list. So yes it's bound to the most common exposure setting.
 
Heine_Otto said:
No surprise really. Most people still go to a supermarket but not many (if any) of the other places on the list. So yes it's bound to the most common exposure setting.
Click to expand...

After been initially shocked by the headline I then thought this also. Lots more people will be going to the supermarket than will be going to pubs. Like schools, every student is going there, hence the high rate, not every student goes to the Gym.
 
Heine_Otto said:
No surprise really. Most people still go to a supermarket but not many (if any) of the other places on the list. So yes it's bound to the most common exposure setting.
Click to expand...
Makes you wonder though why supermarkets haven't had the same restrictions placed on them like restaurants have for example though.
 
It be much more useful if you could calculate number of episodes of contact with specific locations to cases.

I suspect it would look very different. I have been to the supermarket numerous times for shopping over the last 9 months. Only a pub once, gym zero. I am surprised supermarkets aren't higher really.

Primary schools is higher than I expected. I was under the impression they were fairly low risk compared to secondary but are sitting close together.
 
They really have twisted the data to get this result. Why are schools separated into 2 and supermarkets not? Why not put raw data, eg 10s of million visits to supermarket compared to a 10s of thousand to gyms.

It is like those adverts you see that say 95% of people prefer this product to others and when you read the small print there were only 60 odd responses and they were comparing it against their own old out dated product.
 
It's because people still act like complete planks in supermarkets, people pushing past or leaning over you to get to things on shelves or in fridges. Absolute tossbags!

Social distancing goes right out of the window, people wear masks around their chins (if wearing them at all!)

Thankfully I go in them once a week as usual for about an hour and just keep moving, In, fill the trolley and out.
 
Do people still need to queue to get in? I haven't seen a queue to get in a shop for ages other than a small one near me that allows one customer at a time. I only go to quiet places and I'm in and out in 5 minutes. That's twice a week.
 
Plus people grasp an item and have a read of it then put it back so theoretically any article you buy may have been handled dozen or so times by people not wearing gloves . Consequently the article is possibly infected , thus your filled trolley Is like a petri dish .
i shop click n collect from car park and wear gloves loading my boot and same storing items . Bloody good wash after handling !
 
Borobarmy said:
Plus people grasp an item and have a read of it then put it back so theoretically any article you buy may have been handled dozen or so times by people not wearing gloves . Consequently the article is possibly infected , thus your filled trolley Is like a petri dish .
i shop click n collect from car park and wear gloves loading my boot and same storing items . Bloody good wash after handling !
Click to expand...
I didn't think there was much evidence to say you could catch it from handling things?
 
London_Boro said:
It's because people still act like complete planks in supermarkets, people pushing past or leaning over you to get to things on shelves or in fridges. Absolute tossbags!

Social distancing goes right out of the window, people wear masks around their chins (if wearing them at all!)

Thankfully I go in them once a week as usual for about an hour and just keep moving, In, fill the trolley and out.
Click to expand...

I agree about the masks but those people that pick up every steak for 5 minutes to get one with slightly less fat on, causing a que out the door deserve to choke to death on their steak imo.
 
Never go in a Supermarket. By the time you... drive there, find a parking spot, get a trolley, walk around looking to find the stuff, push it round dodging people, queue up at the till, put it on the belt, pay then take it off the belt to fill the trolley again, empty the trolley to put it in bags, take it to the car, fill the boot , take it home then empty the car. I would rather book a delivery slot, every three weeks at a cheap time such as £2 between 18:00 and 19:00 and let it arrive at our door. Bread and milk you get from the local.
 
sambaDTR said:
Never go in a Supermarket. By the time you... drive there, find a parking spot, get a trolley, walk around looking to find the stuff, push it round dodging people, queue up at the till, put it on the belt, pay then take it off the belt to fill the trolley again, empty the trolley to put it in bags, take it to the car, fill the boot , take it home then empty the car. I would rather book a delivery slot, every three weeks at a cheap time such as £2 between 18:00 and 19:00 and let it arrive at our door. Bread and milk you get from the local.
Click to expand...
The issue I have with this is the fact that everything fresh that you get has an expiry date within the following day or two so more food goes to waste. Only did it a couple of times before I got annoyed with it. They pick all of the stuff that is just about ready to expire and send it to you.
 
Capybara said:
Do people still need to queue to get in? I haven't seen a queue to get in a shop for ages other than a small one near me that allows one customer at a time. I only go to quiet places and I'm in and out in 5 minutes. That's twice a week.
Click to expand...

Lidl near me does, Sainsbury's and Waitrose don't. I think this is more to do with Lidl being smaller than being too posh to queue.
 
I like the idea of home delivery but at the moment it’s just nice to get out for my sanity tbh and I can walk there. Probably drunk more wine this year than the last ten combined whilst I’ve been furloughed, she likes a Pinot and I like a Sav, not sure I would trust the online delivery to send me one I like if they didn’t have our favourites. I know someone that ordered a dvd with their online shop and it was out of stock so they sent a replacement item 🤦🏼‍♂️ tbf they got their money back and was told to keep the dvd but I think it was a dvd for their toddler and they sent something like Terminator 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Actually reading the article the thread title is ridiculously misleading. They didn't catch covid in a supermarket. They had been to a supermarket. If 25% of people had reported having eaten a cheese sandwich within 28 days of a positive test it doesn't mean that cheese sandwiches give you covid. Unlike the op to misrepresent data to prove a point. :D
Click to expand...

The same could be said for any activity really so why bother closing or stopping anything?

100% of people that had covid in the past 28 days woke up on a morning... Etc etc.
 
South Korea: You caught covid at 11:59pm whilst attending church, after patient 265 attended choir practice having originally picked up the virus in Wuhan.
UK: people go to the shops.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top