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by mam4 1605 days ago
"supercontagious" and "rare" disease is an oxymoron
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That's right, in the sense that a supercontagious disease cannot stay rare for long. For how long can is stay rare? For how many months? That's a nontrivial question for a diseases such as this, which has both superspreaders and a large number of patients that infect noone.