Chopping the tail: How preventing superspreading can help to maintain COVID-19 control
Disease transmission is notoriously heterogeneous, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. A skewed distribution where few individuals or events are responsible for the majority of transmission can result in explosive, superspreading events, which produce rapid and volatile epidemic dynamics, especially ear...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-03-01
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Series: | Epidemics |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300487 |