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Covid-19 “super-spreading” events play outsized role in overall disease transmission – EurekAlert

MIT researchers find Covid-19 super-spreading events, in which one person infects more than six other people, are much more frequent than anticipated, and that…

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CAMBRIDGE, MA — 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…

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