Inference of person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 reveals hidden super-spreading events during the early outbreak phase

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 5006 - 6
• Main Authors: Wang, Liang, Didelot, Xavier, Yang, Jing, Wong, Gary, Shi, Yi, Liu, Wenjun, Gao, George F., Bi, Yuhai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 06.10.2020; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 45; 631/208/212/2306; 631/326/596/4130; 692/308/174; 692/699/255/2514; Bayes Theorem; Betacoronavirus - classification; Betacoronavirus - genetics; China - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - transmission; Coronavirus Infections - virology; COVID-19; Disease Outbreaks; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; multidisciplinary; Pandemics; Phylogeny; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - transmission; Pneumonia, Viral - virology; SARS-CoV-2; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); China

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in late 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and spread globally in months, sparking worldwide concern. However, it is unclear whether super-spreading events occurred during the early outbreak phase, as has been observed for other emerging vir...