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Superspreading drives the COVID pandemic — and could help to tame it

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  • Dyani Lewis

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Uneven transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has had tragic consequences — but also offers clues for how best to target control measures.

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  • Dyani Lewis, 2021. "Superspreading drives the COVID pandemic — and could help to tame it," Nature, Nature, vol. 590(7847), pages 544-546, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:590:y:2021:i:7847:d:10.1038_d41586-021-00460-x
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-00460-x
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    1. Carlo Corradini & Jesse Matheson & Enrico Vanino, 2024. "Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 91(363), pages 944-979, July.
    2. Nishant Raj Kapoor & Ashok Kumar & Anuj Kumar & Dilovan Asaad Zebari & Krishna Kumar & Mazin Abed Mohammed & Alaa S. Al-Waisy & Marwan Ali Albahar, 2022. "Event-Specific Transmission Forecasting of SARS-CoV-2 in a Mixed-Mode Ventilated Office Room Using an ANN," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-27, December.
    3. Finn Stevenson & Kentaro Hayasi & Nicola Luigi Bragazzi & Jude Dzevela Kong & Ali Asgary & Benjamin Lieberman & Xifeng Ruan & Thuso Mathaha & Salah-Eddine Dahbi & Joshua Choma & Mary Kawonga & Mduduzi, 2021. "Development of an Early Alert System for an Additional Wave of COVID-19 Cases Using a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(14), pages 1-14, July.
    4. Francesco Bellocchio & Paola Carioni & Caterina Lonati & Mario Garbelli & Francisco Martínez-Martínez & Stefano Stuard & Luca Neri, 2021. "Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance System for COVID-19 Outbreak Prediction in a Large European Dialysis Clinics Network," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(18), pages 1-18, September.
    5. Nishant Raj Kapoor & Aman Kumar & Ashok Kumar & Harish Chandra Arora & Anuj Kumar & Sulakshya Gaur, 2024. "Energy-Efficient Strategies for Mitigating Airborne Pathogens in Buildings—Building Stage-Based Sustainable Strategies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-22, January.

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