Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · May 12

I'd forgive you if you missed this NEJM paper on Andes virus "super-spreaders," since it was published in December 2020 when most of us were focused on getting COVID vaccines into arms.

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Graham Walker, MD · May 12

Thankfully, researchers in Argentina were closely analyzing their own hantavirus outbreak from ~2 years earlier. Reading the paper now, what struck me most is that the outbreak behaved less like a classic epidemic — and more like a cluster-driven ember fire.