Are epidemic growth rates more informative than reproduction numbers?
Summary statistics, often derived from simplified models of epidemic spread, inform public health policy in real time. The instantaneous reproduction number, <i>R<sub>t</sub></i>, is predominant among these statistics, measuring the average ability of an infection to multiply...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2021
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