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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Principais autores: Parag, KV, Thompson, RN, Donnelly, CA
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021