Sydney COVID: Why the northern beaches cluster is facing city with a super-spreading disaster
Advertisement Four days before Christmas, Sydney faces an outbreak of SARS-COV-2. Half of all such infections are asymptomatic, rendering infected people invisible. Epidemics, unchecked, grow exponentially. Credit:James Brickwood Forty new cases today may become 120 new cases by Christmas Day. Half of them will have no symptoms and the rest will have mild symptoms so will carry on as normal. The peak infectiousness of this virus is very early in the infection, before symptoms appear, making Christmas Day a ticking time bomb. People infected today and tomorrow may travel halfway across Sydney ...
Source: watoday.com.au
