chaparral wrote:
A few studies have come out that show that a small number of infectious people (between 5% and 20%), are responsible for 80% of infections, ie a small number of people spread it the most. We don't know if that is due to the behavior of those people or if the virus is more contagious in those people. But this can explain partly why some places did not get as bad as others.
So everything looks fine, then you get some superspreaders overlapping at the same time and cases jump very quickly. Now you have more people infected, which means more superspreaders, and so on and so on.
Also, this helps with contact tracing, because isolating a super spreader really helps control the spread. Just by luck contract tracing may be pretty effective.
Agreed. But in some studies I've seen referenced, super spreaders need proximity and time with people. Continuing social distancing should reduce the ability of super spreaders to super spread.
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