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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2020

The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak.

Sang Woo Park, Daniel M Cornforth, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S Weitz

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sang Woo ParkDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Daniel M CornforthSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jonathan DushoffDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Joshua S WeitzSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of asymptomatic carriers in transmission poses challenges for control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Study of asymptomatic transmission and implications for surveillance and disease burden are ongoing, but there has been little study of the implications of asymptomatic transmission on dynamics of disease. We use a mathematical framework to evaluate expected effects of asymptomatic transmission on the basic reproduction number

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asymptomatic transmissionbasic reproduction numbercoronavirus diseaseCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2

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PMID32511456
PMCPMC7239084

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