INVESTIGADORES
BELDOMENICO Pablo Martin
artículos
Título:
Do superspreaders generate new superspreaders? a hypothesis to explain the propagation pattern of COVID-19
Autor/es:
BELDOMENICO PM
Revista:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES : IJID : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2020 vol. 96 p. 461 - 463
ISSN:
1201-9712
Resumen:
The current global propagation of COVID-19 is heterogeneous, with slow transmission continuing in many countries, and exponential propagation in others, in which the time that took to begin this explosive spread varies greatly. It is proposed that this could be explained by cascading superspreading events, in which new infections caused by a superspreader are more likely to be highly infectious. The mechanism suggested for this is related to viral loads. Exposure to high viral loads may result in infections of high intensity, which exposes new cases to high viral loads, and so on. This notion is supported by experimental veterinary research.
