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Superspreaders and High Variance Infectious Diseases

2020-09-08 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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(Dated: September 6, 2020) A well-known characteristic of pandemics such as COVID-19 is the high level of transmission heterogeneity in the infection spread: not all infected individuals spread the disease at the same rate and some individuals (superspreaders) are responsible for most of the infections. To quantify this phenomenon requires the analysis of the effect of the variance and higher moments of the infection distribution. Working in the framework of stochastic branching processes, we d...

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