{"id":7075,"date":"2020-05-22T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:33:09","slug":"impact-of-superspreaders-on-dissemination-and-mitigation-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/impact-of-superspreaders-on-dissemination-and-mitigation-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of\u00a0Superspreaders\u00a0on Dissemination and Mitigation of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sneppen and Simonsen\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n agent-based model\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0includes\u00a0superspreaders\u00a0(persons who spread the disease far more readily than others)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to\u00a0i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nvestigated\u00a0the effect of containment strategies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">under different models of population mixing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They found that limiting contacts in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">settings with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">diffuse social\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">interactions,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bars, public transport,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lecture halls<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">far more effective than limiting<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the same amount of contact<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0events in the home and work setting.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0They conclude that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">limiting diffuse social contacts, while maintaining normal home and work contacts,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0halt the epidemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sneppen and Simonsen. (May 21, 2020). Impact of\u00a0Superspreaders\u00a0on Dissemination and Mitigation of COVID-19. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 21 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.17.20104745\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.17.20104745<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Sneppen and Simonsen\u00a0developed an agent-based model\u00a0that\u00a0includes\u00a0superspreaders\u00a0(persons who spread the disease far more readily than others)\u00a0to\u00a0investigated\u00a0the effect of containment strategies\u00a0under different models of population mixing. They found that limiting contacts in\u00a0settings with\u00a0diffuse social\u00a0interactions,\u00a0such as\u00a0bars, public transport,\u00a0or\u00a0lecture halls,\u00a0was\u00a0far more effective than limiting\u00a0the same amount of contact\u00a0events in the home and work setting.\u00a0They conclude that\u00a0limiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/impact-of-superspreaders-on-dissemination-and-mitigation-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}