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What makes a COVID superspreader?

Jun 20, 202313 min
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We've all heard that COVID spreads in clusters and sometimes the cluster comes from a single person who can infect nearly everyone around them.

They're superspreaders and it's been opaque how much virus a superspreader is actually responsible for spreading around.

Now a study has found that in a group of deliberately infected people, just two of them were responsible for nearly 90 percent of all the virus emitted - even though they only had mild symptoms.

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