We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I ...
A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in May 2020 reports the use of a dynamic SEIR model to identify variations in the reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 over time, using machine ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up myriad questions, including how contagious the coronavirus which causes the disease is. One common way of expressing this is what experts who study the spread of ...
Scientists say there is no evidence that the BA.5 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than measles, or that it has a basic reproduction number, or "R-naught" (R0), of 18.6 ...
In times of Corona, everybody looks at the reproduction number. However, this important number is subject to uncertainties. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) now present a method ...
When the coronavirus was spreading at its peak, it’s estimated that one infected individual could spread it to as many as three other people, who would spread it to three more, and those folks to ...
Freya Shearer receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Government Departments of Health and Foreign Affairs and Trade, and NSW Health. Catherine Bennett ...
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