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Superspreaders drive the largest outbreaks of hospital onset COVID-19 infections

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SARS-CoV-2 is notable both for its rapid spread, and for the heterogeneity of its patterns of transmission, with multiple published incidences of superspreading behaviour. Here, we applied a novel network reconstruction algorithm to infer patterns of viral transmission occurring between patients and health care workers (HCWs) in the largest clusters of COVID-19 infection identified during the first wave of the epidemic at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Based upon dat...

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10.7554/elife.67308

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eLife Sciences Publications Publisher's website
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eLife Journal website
Volume:
10
Article number:
e67308
Publication date:
2021-08-24
Acceptance date:
2021-07-15
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2050-084X
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34425938
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1195310
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pubs:1195310
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2021-12-21

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