Senior Research Scientist + Asst Prof (Practice) @ Brown SPH. Interested in epidemiology, stats, modeling, ID, complexity, causality. Know just enough to be dangerous.
Current quest: never leave Emacs.
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Jason Gantenberg
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Maintenance is the mortar of any society
What else can we hope for?
Lots of posts using the 2020 NEJM superspreading event paper as estimate of typical hantavirus transmissibility.
Reminder that superspreading events are by definition an outlier. If you want to estimate transmissibility you need to look at ALL infections, not just cherry pick tail of distribution.