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