Background A recurrent feature of infectious diseases is the observation that different
individuals show different levels of secondary transmission. This inter-individual variation in …

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome
(MERS), and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have caused substantial public health …

The COVID-19 pandemic now affects the entire world and has many major effects on the
global economy, environment, health, and society. Focusing on the harm COVID-19 poses …

Superspreading, or overdispersion in transmission, is a feature of SARS‐CoV‐2
transmission which results in surging epidemics and large clusters of infection. The …

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised huge concerns about the prospect
of a major health disaster that would result in a huge number of deaths. This anxiety was …

High-density communities have proliferated globally during rapid urbanization. They are
characterized by a high population density and limited per capita public spaces, making …

In the context of infectious disease transmission, high heterogeneity in individual
infectiousness indicates that a few index cases can generate large numbers of secondary …

Quantifying variation of individual infectiousness is critical to inform disease control.
Previous studies reported substantial heterogeneity in transmission of many infectious …

In this paper, we present a method to forecast the spread of SARS-CoV-2 across regions
with a focus on the role of mobility. Mobility has previously been shown to play a significant …

Despite there being a rich set of studies documenting the association between the built
environment and the spread of COVID-19, little attention has been paid to the communities …