Diplo headlines massive Super Bowl super-spreader… while 50 Cent and Tory Lanez party mask-less

Diplo appeared to be blissfully unaware of the coronavirus pandemic while hosting a massive pre-Super Bowl party in Tampa Bay, Florida. The 42-year-old DJ headlined a show on Saturday night at the Godfrey Waterfront Hotel’s WTR Tampa Pool in anticipation of the annual sporting event. Before the event, the producer posted a few photos to his … Read more

Los Angeles Superspreader Task Force arrests 182 adults in a single day for underground parties

Los Angeles County officials arrested nearly 200 people on Saturday including attendees of a ‘swinger’s party’ in a warehouse decked out with beds and dancer poles, in a massive crackdown on underground ‘superspreader’ events.   The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s Superspreader Task Force arrested 182 adults at two commercial locations for breaking state lockdown orders on Saturday amid … Read more

Santa gives Belgian care home Covid-19: 75 are infected after ‘superspreader’ visited residents

Santa gives Belgian care home Covid-19: 75 people are infected after ‘superspreader’ dressed as Father Christmas visited residents Santa was welcomed into care home of 150 residents in town of Mol, Antwerp  Three days after he tested positive for Covid-19, sparking fears at the care home Since then 61 elderly and 14 staff have tested positive. … Read more

‘Superspreader’ computer model shows most COVID infections in cities spread in restaurants and gyms

Researchers have developed a computer model that predicts how the novel coronavirus spreads in US cities. The model looks at three factors that play a role in infection risk: where people go during the day, how long they stay, and how many other people are visiting the same place at the same time.  It found … Read more

Coronavirus UK: London ‘to go into Tier 3 lockdown’ as Britain faces a super-spreader Christmas

London could be plunged into Tier 3 lockdown within two weeks as England creeped closer towards full national lockdown by the back door last night, with millions told they will face extra curbs.     Boris Johnson is facing renewed pressure from his medical officers to impose a nation-wide shutdown before and after Christmas in a bid … Read more

Was White House unveiling of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett the superspreader event?

A flurry of positive coronavirus test results that emerged Friday including the president’s share a common nexus: the celebratory White House event where Donald Trump rolled out his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The September 26 gathering – which was filled with peans to textualism and conservative jurisprudence, as well as … Read more

A single super-spreader forced pub, vape bar and Indian restaurant to close after Super Saturday

A single super-spreader forced a pub, a vape bar and an Indian restaurant to close when he went out boozing on ‘Super Saturday’.  The mystery drinker visited The Lighthouse Inn in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset before heading to Vape Escape during his bar crawl, locals have claimed. A driver from takeaway Saagar Indian had also been in the same … Read more

Will supermarkets become the new superspreader of coronavirus?

Shoppers have been pictured squeezing together at supermarkets this morning, ignoring social distancing rules and raising fears that stores could become the new superspreaders of coronavirus. Under government guidelines, people are supposed to stay 6ft apart from others if they have to go outside, but shoppers at several supermarkets all over the UK this morning … Read more

Seven Brits test positive for coronavirus in Vietnam after plane with globe-trotting super-spreader

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Nearly 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of … Read more

Panic spreads across Surrey town after family was given coronavirus by unknown ‘super-spreader’

Anxiety in an exclusive Surrey market town at the centre of Britain’s coronavirus crisis is heightening today as health officials still hunt for the mystery ‘super-spreader’ whose infection has been passed to at least four people in the stockbroker belt. Haslemere, an affluent commuter community of 10,000 people nestled in the Surrey Hills where George Eliot … Read more