Clustering and superspreading potential of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong

• Published in: Nature Medicine Vol. 26; no. 11; pp. 1714 - 1719
• Main Authors: Adam, Dillon C., Wu, Peng, Wong, Jessica Y., Lau, Eric H. Y., Tsang, Tim K., Cauchemez, Simon, Leung, Gabriel M., Cowling, Benjamin J.
• Format: Journal Article Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.11.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/255; 692/700/478/174; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Carrier State - epidemiology; Cluster Analysis; Clustering; Confidence intervals; Contact Tracing; Coronaviridae; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - transmission; Disease transmission; Distribution; Female; Health Policy; History; Hong Kong - epidemiology; Households; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Letter; Life Sciences; Male; Metabolic Diseases; Models, Theoretical; Molecular Medicine; Neurosciences; Pandemics; Patient Isolation - legislation & jurisprudence; Public health; Public Health - legislation & jurisprudence; Quarantine - legislation & jurisprudence; Respiratory diseases; SARS-CoV-2 - physiology; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Travel-Related Illness; Viral diseases; Hong Kong; Hong Kong, China; Hong Kong China; China

Superspreading events (SSEs) have characterized previous epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections 1 – 6 . For SARS-CoV-2, the degree to which SSEs are involved in transmission remains unclear, but the...