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		jdlyga on Oct 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Covid: 19% of cases responsible for 80% of transmi... Super-spreader events seem to be how coronaviruses primarily infect others. They were key to how SARS and MERS spread too. So far, there isn't much demographic data on why certain people are "selected" to be super-spreaders.

beamatronic on Oct 6, 2020 [–]

All it would take is someone who talks a lot, and talks loudly, and who doesn’t wear a mask

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