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We've all heard that COVID spreads in clusters and sometimes the cluster comes from a single person who can infect nearly everyone around them.

They're superspreaders and it's been opaque how much virus a superspreader is actually responsible for spreading around.

Now a study has found that in a group of deliberately infected people, just two of them were responsible for nearly 90 percent of all the virus emitted - even though they only had mild symptoms.

0:00 Introduction
1:16 COVID-19 News: Selecting the next vaccine
4:50 What makes a superspreader?

References:

Viral emissions into the air and environment after SARS-CoV-2 human challenge: a phase 1, open label, first-in-human study

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00101-5/fulltext


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