New Research Maps COVID-19 Dispersal Dynamics in New York's First Wave of Epidemic (IMAGE)

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New Research Maps COVID-19 Dispersal Dynamics in New York's First Wave of Epidemic

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Representative reconstruction of the dispersal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City in the spring of 2020 indicates that Queens, and to a smaller extent Brooklyn, acted as the main transmission hubs, with higher local circulation of the virus enabling spill into the other boroughs.

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Dellicour S et al., 2021, PLOS Pathogens

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