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TopicSuperspreader

Topic: superspreader

How winter session of legislature, political weddings turned Covid ‘superspreaders’ in Mumbai

ThePrint independently confirmed 6 cases among Maharashtra’s ministers and 9 among the state’s MLAs, with some of them testing positive just in the last two days.

When Covid super-spreaders are talking, where you sit in the room matters

When we released particles at the front of a classroom, they reached all the way to the back of the room within 10 to 15 minutes.

New Covid startegy needed after studies reveal startling facts about super-spreaders

In episode 582 #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses new research on Covid that conclude that most infection spread is by super-spreader individuals and events.

Why stopping ‘super-spreading’ events may be key to arresting the Covid pandemic

Study by researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, US, compares Covid and influenza, says former may be more amenable to 'super-spreading events'. It is yet to be peer-reviewed.

A few ‘superspreaders’ transmit majority of coronavirus cases

Scientists estimate that in an outbreak of any pathogen, 20% of the population is usually responsible for causing over 80% of all cases of the disease.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is also a superspreader of fake news on Twitter

Amitabh Bachchan's one of those active uncles on WhatsApp groups--the compulsive text 'forwarders' who shrug off all responsibility from what they share.

Superspreaders hold the key to controlling Covid-19

Understanding the pattern of secondary transmissions would explain why Covid has spread so unevenly and unpredictably around the world.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.