Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control

• Benjamin M. Althouse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Hao Hu

  * E-mail: balthouse@idmod.org

  Affiliations Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Edward A. Wenger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Hao Hu

  Affiliation Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America

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• Joel C. Miller,

  Affiliation School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4426-0405

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• Samuel V. Scarpino,

  Affiliations Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-2770

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• Antoine Allard,

  Affiliations Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d’Optique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Centre Interdisciplinaire en Modélisation Mathématique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8208-9920

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• Laurent Hébert-Dufresne,

  Affiliations Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d’Optique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

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• Hao Hu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Hao Hu

  Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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