Superspreading

Superspreading is a normal feature of epidemics1. SARS CoV 2 seems to be dominated by such superspreading events2.

  1. Lloyd Smith2005superspreading, Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence ↩

  2. Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all ↩