The Cove 19 Birthday Effect in the Midle of the Pandemic

The first episode of this podcast, i described a study that we did. It's based on our daughter. She had a birthday a couple of decembers ago and we decided a host azom party and not do it in person. I we're worried about covid and it made me think, you know, i wonder if you look at people who have birth days verses don't have birthdays in any given week,. Do the kids who have birthdays, are they more likely to have cova diagnoses? And we found that in the two weeks following when a household had a single member with a birthday, the rates of cova 19 infection in that household went up about 30%.