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How ‘superspreading’ helps drive the coronavirus pandemic
coronavirus, according to the province’s top doctor.“Superspreading” events like these have happened before: at a funeral in Newfoundland, a choir practice in Washington state, and at nightclubs in South Korea.Experts say superspreading events, and the superspreaders who attend them, could be responsible for a good portion of new COVID-19 cases, with implications for how we deal with the pandemic. In this outbreak, public health officials have been watching the “R0” figure, which is the average number of people each infected person infects in turn, said Amy Greer, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Guelph.If that number is below one, the epidemic is shrinking.