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    Why The Coronavirus Is So 'Superspready'

    That's the word that one disease researcher uses to describe COVID-19. And now scientists are discovering the reasons that this virus is readily transmitted at "superspreader events."
    by Pien Huang Aug 25, 2020 3 minutes
    After shuttering bar districts early in the pandemic, Hong Kong reopened them in May. Some have been linked to new clusters of cases.

    A person with a high viral load walks into a bar.

    That, according to researchers who study the novel coronavirus, is a recipe for a superspreading event — where one person or gathering leads to an unusually high number of new infections. And that kind of occurrence is increasingly considered a hallmark of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

    "There are some really good estimates out there that suggest that between 10% and 20% of cases are responsible for about 80% of transmission events," on Aug. 10.

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