Superspreading of airborne pathogens in a heterogeneous world

Abstract Epidemics are regularly associated with reports of superspreading: single individuals infecting many others. How do we determine if such events are due to people inherently being biological superspreaders or simply due to random chance? We present an analytically solvable model for airborne...

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Main Authors: Julius B. Kirkegaard, Joachim Mathiesen, Kim Sneppen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90666-w