Selected article for: "contact rate and reproductive number"

Author: Andrew J Stier; Marc G Berman; Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Title: COVID-19 attack rate increases with city size
  • Document date: 2020_3_27
  • ID: aeminwf0_5
    Snippet: The reproductive number is the product of two factors R = β/γ, the infectious period 1/γ (a physiological property) and the contact rate β, which is a property of the population, essentially measuring the number of social contacts that can transmit the disease per unit time. Of these, only the contact rate can be changed via public health interventions......
    Document: The reproductive number is the product of two factors R = β/γ, the infectious period 1/γ (a physiological property) and the contact rate β, which is a property of the population, essentially measuring the number of social contacts that can transmit the disease per unit time. Of these, only the contact rate can be changed via public health interventions.

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