• DOI:10.1101/2020.10.21.20216895
Corpus ID: 225040713

Superspreading Events Without Superspreaders: Using High Attack Rate Events to Estimate N o forAirborne Transmission of COVID-19

@article{Prentiss2020SuperspreadingEW,
  title={Superspreading Events Without Superspreaders: Using High Attack Rate Events to Estimate N o forAirborne Transmission of COVID-19},
  author={M. Prentiss and A. Chu and K. K. Berggren},
  journal={medRxiv},
  year={2020}
}

M. Prentiss, A. Chu, K. K. Berggren

Published 2020

Medicine

medRxiv

We study transmission of COVID-19 using five well-documented case studies : a Washington state church choir, a Korean call center, a Korean exercise class, and two different Chinese bus trips. In all cases the likely index patients were pre-symptomatic or mildly symptomatic, which is when infective patients are most likely to interact with large groups of people. An estimate of N 0 , the characteristic number of COVID-19 virions needed to induce infection in each case, is found using a simple… CONTINUE READING

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