An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A biotech conference in Boston last February that’s already been flagged as a Covid-19 superspreading event led to at least 245,000 other cases across the US and Europe, a new genetic fingerprinting study shows. One single case seems to have been responsible for many of the other eventual cases, the team at the…
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Restaurants and gyms drove COVID-19 transmission this spring
Restaurants were the riskiest venues for transmission, followed by gyms, coffee shops and hotels. Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-superspreading-venues-restaurants.html
Finding coronavirus superspreaders may be key to halting a second wave
The R number for coronavirus has had a lot of attention, but we also need to understand the K number – the variability in how many people one infects – to stop superspreading Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250375-finding-coronavirus-superspreaders-may-be-key-to-halting-a-second-wave/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Washington Post: Asymptomatic ‘Superspreaders’ May Be Propelling the Pandemic
Saturday the Washington Post (in an article republished in Stars and Stripes) took a closer look at what’s known as “superspreading events”:
Many scientists say such infection bursts — probably sparked by a single, highly infectious individual who may show no signs of illness and unwittingly share an enclosed space with many others — are driving the pandemic. They worry these cases,…