Evidence that coronavirus superspreading is fat-tailed

Superspreaders, infected individuals who result in an outsized number of secondary cases, are believed to underlie a significant fraction of total SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Here, we combine empirical observations of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 transmission and extreme value statistics to show that the di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wong, Felix, Collins, James J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128365