Covid-19: 15% of people responsible for 80% of secondary infections

Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2 – Science

Commentary: What we can learn from contact tracing an entire province – Ars Technica

Commentary on Twitter

Study of 1,178 #COVID19 cases & their 15,648 contacts in Hunan, China. Just 15% of people were responsible for 80% of secondary infections.

Children were less likely to be infected than young to middle-aged adults, but infectiousness didn’t differ by age.https://t.co/PYaj9pbSJo pic.twitter.com/mREh5wWkKd

— Dr Zoë Hyde (@DrZoeHyde) November 26, 2020