What Is a Superspreader?

After President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 and 34 people connected to the White House were infected, there is speculation that a Rose Garden ceremony introducing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett might have been a coronavirus “superspreader” event. Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, discusses what we know about superspreaders, how infections accelerate and what we can do to prevent these superspreading events from happening. To read the full story.