I am being lazy and not reading all the papers you referenced—do many of them discuss the viral load of the person who is infected?
I think a couple of them did; I don’t remember if any of them found strong effects. Might ask a language model to check later—agree that this seems like one of those big open questions that could imply huge differences in worthwhile interventions, though I think that if viral load turns out to be the only key factor in transmission likelihood, such that other interventions have basically no effect if effectuated w.r.t. spreaders with high viral loads, that’s pretty bad news, since testing for high viral load might be much harder/more expensive than e.g. putting on a mask if it turns out that “large particulates” are most of the problem in the case of a specific illness. (Though I guess we do still have the problem of knowing what illness a given person has, to know what intervention to apply...)
I think a couple of them did; I don’t remember if any of them found strong effects. Might ask a language model to check later—agree that this seems like one of those big open questions that could imply huge differences in worthwhile interventions, though I think that if viral load turns out to be the only key factor in transmission likelihood, such that other interventions have basically no effect if effectuated w.r.t. spreaders with high viral loads, that’s pretty bad news, since testing for high viral load might be much harder/more expensive than e.g. putting on a mask if it turns out that “large particulates” are most of the problem in the case of a specific illness. (Though I guess we do still have the problem of knowing what illness a given person has, to know what intervention to apply...)