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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Main Authors: Morgan P. Kain, Marissa L. Childs, Alexander D. Becker, Erin A. Mordecai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Epidemics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300487