I wrote a column about how Covid-19's penchant for superspreading events is probably a *good* thing bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Here's the 2005 @nature article by @jlloydsmith et. al. that showed that a tendency toward superspreading makes "disease extinction more likely and outbreaks rarer but more explosive." nature.com/articles/natur…
Also highly recommended: @kakape's article on Covid-19 superspreading from last week sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/w…
And here's a useful thread about different estimates of Covid-19's "k," the dispersion parameter that measures how important superspreaders are to a disease's transmission
