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Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID ‐19 elimination
Author(s) -
Kault David
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja2.50835
Subject(s) - citation , covid-19 , library science , computer science , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
Superspreaders are a well known feature of some infectious diseases.1,2 Clearly, differing social roles will mean some infected people are more likely than others to spread a disease.3 For coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19), biological factors are also important, as there may be a millionfold variation in the viral load in secretions.4 Measurement of the number of secondary cases from a given primary case has shown that superspreading may be more important in COVID19 than in many other infections.5–8