A range of variables govern how many people an individual infects, from how fast they shed the virus to how many people they come into close contact with. FMTNews FMTLifestyle
The novel coronavirus has a typical transmission rate of two to three – that is, every confirmed case appears to infect between two and three other people on average.Suspected super-spreaders
“It’s possible that what we call super-spreaders exist, those patients who don’t only infect 2-3 others but could infect dozens,” said Eric Caumes, head of infectious and tropical diseases at Paris’ Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.According to Olivier Bouchaud, head of infectious diseases at that Avicenne hospital in Paris’ suburbs, variable transmission rates could be down to how fast a patient sheds the virus once infected.
“But we are not all the same, we vary in our immune systems, in our behaviour, and in where we happen to be,” she said.Bharat Pankhania, an infectious diseases expert at Britain’s Exeter University, even disputed whether super-spreaders existed.
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