Estimating the reproductive number and the outbreak size of COVID-19 in Korea

OBJECTIVES Since the first novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient in Korea was diagnosed on January 20, 2020, 30 patients were diagnosed until February 17, 2020. However, 5,298 additional patients were confirmed until March 4, 2020. Therefore, our objective was to estimate the reproductio...

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Main Authors: Sunhwa Choi, Moran Ki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Epidemiology 2020-03-01
Series:Epidemiology and Health
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Online Access:http://www.e-epih.org/upload/pdf/epih-42-e2020011.pdf