Super-infection cases, in which a huge number of individuals are concurrently contaminated, are already a typical occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of a single super-spread event—a two-day international business conference held in Boston in February 2020—generated more than 90 additional investigations. Control mechanisms are important for super-spreading incidents to continue as they are.
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