NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by mariodiana on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:30PM (#27521096)

Doesn't the virus spread, primarily, first through so-called super-spreader venues/events and then within households? If I read the article correctly, this was 9 individuals out of 24 thousand. It's plausible that there would be no mass outbreak.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by Izkata on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:01PM (#27521441)

Yeah, I remember an article a month or so ago that mentioned SARS-CoV-2 has a higher "clustering" rating than common cold/flu, which meant a smaller number of people caused more spreading, and that there wouldn't be a noticeable outbreak until the virus reached one of these superspreaders.

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Re:NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infecti... by simonh on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @06:04PM (#27522118)

This is why Italy got absolutely hammered quite early on. They were very unlucky to get hit by the mother of all super spreader events.

Meanwhile it looks like some other countries like France had a few cases before then, but it died out.

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