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The unmitigated profile of COVID-19 infectiousness
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The unmitigated profile of COVID-19 infectiousness

Abstract

Abstract Quantifying the temporal dynamics of infectiousness of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 is crucial for understanding the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and for analyzing the effectiveness of different mitigation strategies. Many studies have tried to use data from the onset of symptoms of infector-infectee pairs to estimate the infectiousness profile of SARS-CoV-2. However, both statistical and epidemiological …

Authors

Sender R; Bar-On YM; Park SW; Noor E; Dushoff J; Milo R

DOI

10.1101/2021.11.17.21266051

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medRxiv