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Just 10-20% of COVID-19 cases behind 80% of transmission, studies suggest
Beth Mole · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 12 June, 2020 - 15:21
Much about how the new coronavirus spreads from one victim to the next remains a maddening mystery. But amid all the frantic efforts to understand transmission, there is one finding that appears consistent: that it is inconsistent.
Some people—most, even—don’t spread the virus to anyone in the course of their infection. Others infect dozens at a time.
It’s a phenomenon that looked, at first, like anomalous anecdotes—a large outbreak from a Washington choir practice , a South Korean megachurch , a wedding in Jordan —but it has become a fixed feature of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. And researchers have started to settle on numbers for it.