Media


Because we would like the database to be of use to researchers, policy makers, public health institutions, industry and the public, we welcome opportunities to spread the word about the database. 

If you are a journalist looking for more information about the project, please send us a message at contact@superspreadingdatabase.com. 

The Database in the Media

  • Toronto Star: Where are people getting COVID-19? A global crowdsourced database provides some clues
  • The Guardian: Coronavirus: easing several lockdown rules at once could boost virus, say UK scientists
  • Washington Post: A year into the pandemic, it’s even more clear that it’s safer to be outside
  • Washington Post: ‘Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic
  • Atlantic: We Need to Talk about Ventilation
  • Vox: How superspreading is fueling the pandemic — and how we can stop it
  • Globe and Mail: It’s time to take aim at superspreader events
  • CityNews: Researchers taking COVID-19 data analysis into their own hands
  • Economist: A minority of people with covid-19 account for the bulk of transmission
  • Emory University: Data Resources for SARS-CoV-2
  • Covid-19 Data Dispatch: Your Thanksgiving could be a superspreading event
  • Global Investigative Journalism Network: Tracking the Superspreader Events Driving the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • New Zealand Productivity Commission: The small numbers problem: distinguishing good luck from good performance
  • New Scientist: Finding coronavirus superspreaders may be key to halting a second wave
  • Becker's Hospital Review: Stopping 'superspreaders' could slam brakes on pandemic, professor says
  • Science Magazine: Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all?
  • Marginal Revolution: Database of 1,100 superspreading events
  • Independent SAGE: Review of Scientific Evidence on 2-Metre versus 1-Metre Social Distancing
  • Huffington Post: What Are Super-Spreader Events – And How Can You Avoid Them?
  • Smithsonian Magazine: What Super-Spreading Events Teach Us About Protecting Ourselves From COVID-19
  • The Guardian: As more local lockdowns begin, the hard truth is there's no return to 'normal' 
  • Financial Times: Schools play limited role in spread of Covid-19, studies signal