Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
The super-spreader hypothesis is faulty.
In epidemiology super-spreaders are not a hypothesis; they are known and documented phenomenon dating back to 'Typhoid Mary'. Super spreader events have been documented in both major previous coronavirus outbreaks - SARS and MERS.
Have a read of Stein's 2010 '
Super-spreaders in infectious diseases' or Chun's 2016 '
Understanding and Modeling the Super-spreading Events of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak in Korea' if you want to inform yourself.
If you want to argue the toss take it up with your local School of Epidemiology.