Health
Largest COVID-19 study highlights role of super-spreaders – Los Angeles Times
A study of 660,000 Indians finds that a few individuals spread most new infections and that children transmit the coronavirus just as well as adults.
In the bleak ranking of worst COVID-19 outbreaks, the United States, with 7.2 million infections, is likely to be eclipsed only by India, which has 1 million fewer cases but is catching up fast.
Yet parts of India have led the world in one aspect of the pandemic response: contact tracing the labor-intensive, time-sensitive, painstaking work of identifying people who were exposed to a known infected person.
Extensive contact tracing in two southern Indian states offers the strongest evidence ye…
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