Massachusetts study details role of super-spreading events in COVID-19A new study by scientists in Massachusetts is highlighting the role that super-spreading events played in the spread of COVID-19 in the state.In the study, published yesterday on the preprint server medRxiv and not yet peer reviewed, a team led by researchers from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT analyzed and sequenced 772 genomes from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) nasopharyngeal samples collected by the Massachusetts Department of Health and Massachusetts General Hospital from Jan 29 to May 9.
The samples, representing nearly all early confirmed cases in Massachusetts through Mar 8, came from many of the communities in and around Boston with the