The concept first emerged in previous outbreaks of diseases like Sars and Mers. FMTNews C0vid19
PARIS: Can a single Covid-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many.
“But, in general, it is usually a markedly higher figure when compared to that of other individuals,” he told AFP. One suspected super-spreader, a British national, appears to have infected a dozen others when he returned from Singapore and then went skiing in the Alps.In South Korea, which has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases outside of Italy, a woman known as Patient 31 appears to have infected dozens of others.
Another unknown is the role played by young children, who are less severely affected by the virus but are capable of transmitting it – part of the reason many countries have moved to close schools in recent days.Cristl Donnelly, professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, said all disease transmission was by nature “highly variable”.
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