The implications of this finding are huge and haven't really made it into the public discussion of coronavirus. The pandemic spreads in a very specific way and is going to be much easier to stop than the outdated "herd immunity or vaccine" framing suggests. Hooray!https://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1267769436770930688 …
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Although one of the super-spreading factors seems to be exposure to singing/loud shouting so the whole chant in a crowd and cough up a lung after getting tear gassed still seems like it might drive infection.
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As someone who attended a protest I eagerly await the results of this experiment!
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It also provides at least some explanation for the vastly different local outcomes. Higher dispersion would suggest much higher variance in local outcomes just by luck
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Fantastic. So if all we need to worry about is 20% of the cases being superspreadera, and we have somewhere between 1.4M and, say, 10m active cases, then all we need to do is contact-trace and isolate 280K-1m people. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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BTW, this is not really news. It’s been known since SARS, and was observed early in the spread of nCov. But it doesn’t do much for you unless you have sufficient contact tracing and testing, and a low case burden. Which the US has none of.
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