Lockdowns exert selection pressure on overdispersion of SARS-CoV-2 variants

The SARS-CoV-2 ancestral strain has caused pronounced superspreading events, reflecting a disease characterized by overdispersion, where about 10% of infected people cause 80% of infections. New variants of the disease have different person-to-person variability in viral load, suggesting for example...

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Main Authors: Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Andreas Eilersen, Lone Simonsen, Kim Sneppen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175543652200055X