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by user_50123890 2230 days ago
Whether you get infected or not is a game of chance. There are a lot of factors affecting the probability:

* Being indoors during contact (increases)

* Duration of contact (every minute increases)

* Physical distance between contacts (every meter decreases)

* Amount of contacts (every person increases)

* Wearing masks (decreases)

* Washing hands (decreases)

* Coughing, speaking, singing during contacts (increases)

Meeting people close to you ticks basically every probability-increasing checkbox in the list.

1 comments

Don't forget presence of pre-existant antibodies in the person. (decreases)