Role of super-spreader phenomenon in a Covid-19 cluster among healthcare workers in a Primary Care Hospital

International audienceRole of super-spreader phenomenon in a Covid-19 cluster among healthcare workers in a Primary Care Hospital We read with great interest the recent publication of Majra et al. 1 focusing on "societal" superspreading events (SSE) as a major risk factor for epidemic spread. We report another situation of SSE with a nosocomial cluster amongst healthcare workers (HCW) in Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, a middle-sized hospital of 525 beds, between February 21 and March 6, following the admission of our first confirmed COVID-19 case. A suspected COVID-19 case was someone exhibiting compatible symptoms who had been in direct or indirect contact with the index case. A confirmed case was a suspected case with laboratory confirmation through real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) performed on a nasopharyngeal swab