Low dispersion in the infectiousness of COVID-19 cases implies difficulty in control

Low dispersion in the infectiousness of COVID-19 cases implies difficulty in control

Abstract The individual infectiousness of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), quantified by the number of secondary cases of a typical index case, is conventionally modelled by a negative-binomial (NB) distribution. Based on patient data of 9120 confirmed cases in China, we calculated the variation...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daihai He, Shi Zhao, Xiaoke Xu, Qiangying Lin, Zian Zhuang, Peihua Cao, Maggie H. Wang, Yijun Lou, Li Xiao, Ye Wu, Lin Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
COVID-19
Basic reproductive number
Dispersion
Negative binomial
Mitigation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09624-2

Internet

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09624-2

Similar Items