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Abstract
Chinese people have a very good mask-wearing culture; it is normal to wear masks to protect their faces from wind and pollution. Thus, they easily accept the wearing of masks to prevent infectious diseases, as seen with the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China today. However, Chinese people have a dangerous eating culture: they share foods or soups from the same bowls and pots using their personal chopsticks/spoons and emphasize loud talking when eating at banquets or at homes. We think this eating culture has raised the infection risk of COVID-19 from person to person by contamination. Therefore, in this paper, we propose models to elucidate how people are infected with COVID-19 through droplet transmission when eating with Chinese cultural context to address the urgent need to change Chinese eating culture; we believe these study models can help not only the Chinese people, but also other national people, to raise mindfulness of public health, prevent COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, at the present pandemic and in the future.
Highlights
An outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in Wuhan city, Hubei province of the People’s Republic of China at the end of 2019
We propose a possible relationship between infection pathways and the Chinese eating culture and we suggest that Chinese people to change or improve their eating ways to prevent the diseases, especially contagious infectious diseases, at the present and future
For analysis of the data on the subject in the models, the merits are that we propose some of possible ways of COVID-19 infection, and correlations between the eating and masking cultures and the infections; and the demerits are that data are not complete; we will improve the models in our future studies
Summary
An outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in Wuhan city, Hubei province of the People’s Republic of China at the end of 2019. Considerable efforts to reduce transmission will be required to control outbreaks. Measures to prevent or reduce transmission should be implemented in populations [7,8]. COVID-19 involves mostly mild infections among the majority of the general population, the risk of death among young adults is higher than that of seasonal influenza, and elderly with underlying comorbidities require additional care [13]. The estimating results show: uncertainty range is given where provided; rapid implementation of the control generates much smaller case numbers; risk of major outbreaks is a function of cumulative number of infectious cases [14]. In the discussion of this article, we compare the Chinese and American eating and maskwearing cultures, to reduce the infection and fatality rates of COVID-19
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