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This overlooked variable is the key to the pandemic

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03 October 2020, 11:13 AM
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This overlooked variable is the key to the pandemic
Long article in the Atlantic. I thought it was well-worth the read.

https://www.theatlantic.com/he...ing-pandemic/616548/

"Hitoshi Oshitani, a member of the National COVID-19 Cluster Taskforce at Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and a professor at Tohoku University who told me that Japan focused on the overdispersion impact from early on, likens his country’s approach to looking at a forest and trying to find the clusters, not the trees. Meanwhile, he believes, the Western world was getting distracted by the trees, and got lost among them. To fight a super-spreading disease effectively, policy makers need to figure out why super-spreading happens, and they need to understand how it affects everything, including our contact-tracing methods and our testing regimes."


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