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, R<sub>t</sub>, is predominant among these statistics, measuring the average ability of an infection to multiply. However, R<sub...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022
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