Usually, COVID-19 cases take several days to become infections - but something strange is happening in NSW and it has experts very concerned.
An aerial view of traffic streaming into the Crossroads Hotel to get a coronavirus test. Picture: Brook Mitchell/Getty ImagesA superspreader may also have played a part.
“Some infected individuals might shed more virus into the environment than others if their immune system has trouble subduing the invader,” Professor of Entomology and Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, Elizabeth McGraw, wrote in a piece for“Additionally, asymptomatic individuals – up to 50 per cent of all those who get COVID-19 – will continue their normal activities, inadvertently infecting more people.
Prof Collignon said one person had also been responsible for an outbreak in Korea that saw one or two hundred people infected in bars.
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