17. November 2020

Corona study on early super-spreading event in Gangelt published in Nature Communications Corona study on early super-spreading event in Gangelt published

After the preliminary publication on the preprint server medRxiv in May 2020, the study by scientists of the University of Bonn about the first coronavirus outbreak in Germany in the community of Gangelt has been published in the renowned scientific journal Nature Communications.

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The study was already pre-published in May 2020 to meet the demand of scientific journals to make findings about COVID-19 available to science and the public as early as possible.

Publication: Infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a German community with a super-spreading event; Hendrik Streeck, Bianca Schulte, Beate M. Kümmerer, Enrico Richter, Tobias Höller, Christine Fuhrmann, Eva Bartok, Ramona Dolscheid, Moritz Berger, Lukas Wessendorf, Monika Eschbach-Bludau, Angelika Kellings, Astrid Schwaiger, Martin Coenen, Per Hoffmann, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Markus M. Nöthen, Anna-Maria Eis-Hübinger, Martin Exner, Ricarda Maria Schmithausen, Matthias Schmid and Gunther Hartmann; Nature Communications, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19509-y

Article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19509-y