NEW DELHI: From the way we work to how we learn--the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic has brought changes to our lives like never before.
And even the we way speak has been touched. Mint puts together a glossary of terms that are now a part of our everyday discourse. Super spreader: Individuals who infect disproportionately more secondary contacts, as compared to others.
In February, a covid-19 positive individual now widely known as "patient 31" of South Korea was widely called the super spreader for causing a rapid rise in coronavirus cases in the country.
Some niche medical journals had used this phrase earlier--for instance, the International Journal of Infectious Disease had mentioned the phrase in one of its research papers in 2011. F