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Author: Gerardo Chowell; Ranu Dhillon; Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Title: Getting to zero quickly in the 2019-nCov epidemic with vaccines or rapid testing
  • Document date: 2020_2_5
  • ID: 4sw1hrnf_12
    Snippet: The basic reproduction number is defined as the average number of secondary cases generated by primary infectious individuals during the early transmission phase in a completely susceptible population[1]. This a key metric to gauge the intensity and type of interventions that need to be implemented in order to bring the epidemic under control. For the ongoing epidemic of 2019-nCov, R0 has been estimated at 2.2 (3.9, upper bound of 95% confidence .....
    Document: The basic reproduction number is defined as the average number of secondary cases generated by primary infectious individuals during the early transmission phase in a completely susceptible population[1]. This a key metric to gauge the intensity and type of interventions that need to be implemented in order to bring the epidemic under control. For the ongoing epidemic of 2019-nCov, R0 has been estimated at 2.2 (3.9, upper bound of 95% confidence interval).

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