Power law behaviour in the saturation regime of fatality curves of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract We apply a versatile growth model, whose growth rate is given by a generalised beta distribution, to describe the complex behaviour of the fatality curves of the COVID-19 disease for several countries in Europe and North America. We show that the COVID-19 epidemic curves not only may presen...

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Main Authors: Giovani L. Vasconcelos, Antônio M. S. Macêdo, Gerson C. Duarte-Filho, Arthur A. Brum, Raydonal Ospina, Francisco A. G. Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84165-1