TWiV 584: Year of the coronavirus
This Week in Virology
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Is There Any Evidence of a Super Spreader in a Sars Outbreak?
In the case of a sars we had the phenomenon of super spreaders, individuals who infected a large number of other individuals. Is there any evidence of that so far? In this case, there was one report, am again, out of the news media, of 12 to 14 health care workers that were infected from a single infected individual. That would be considered a superspreader event. Alternatively, since we really don't know what the r o of this em ris is, i think it's too early to say, super spreader event. Because of that variation, it could be some other mammal, easily could be another mammal, ralph.
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