Super Spreading: Transmission Pattern in Coronavirus Pandemic

Many “superspreading events” have occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to R, scientists use a value called the dispersion factor (k), which describes how much a disease clusters.
Emerging evidence suggests COVID-19 patients are most infectious for a short period of time.
Untangling the links between patients can reveal who was at the origin of a cluster or expose information about people’s private lives.
Understanding these processes is going to improve infection control, and that’s...