The emerging White House cluster is the kind of incident that infectious disease experts are focusing on as a crucial way to understand how the coronavirus spreads.
is thought to have resulted in at least 176 coronavirus cases and seven deaths.
"A perfect storm is someone who is shedding a lot of virus in a space where they are able to share that virus effectively, so an indoor space without much ventilation with a lot of other people — and particularly if those people are inconsistent with practices like wearing masks," he said. It's thought that an infected person's viral load — or the amount of virus that is actually in their body — plays an important role, but it's unclear how.
It's also not known whether there are biological differences that make the virus more stable in certain people's mucus, Lakdawala said. If that's the case, it could mean that superspreaders are just more effective at transmitting the pathogen when they cough, sneeze or speak.
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