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COVID-19 ‘super-spreading’ events play outsized role in overall disease transmission – Medical Xpress
There have been many documented cases of COVID-19 “super-spreading” events, in which one person infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects many other people. But…
There have been many documented cases of COVID-19 “super-spreading” events, in which one person infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects many other people. But how much of a role do these events play in the overall spread of the disease? A new study from MIT suggests that they have a much larger impact than expected.
The study of about 60 super-spreading events shows that events where one person infects more than six other people are much more common than would be expected if the range of transmission…
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