A simple model for fitting mild, severe, and known cases during an epidemic with an application to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

One of the major difficulties with modelling an ongoing epidemic is that often data is limited or incomplete, making it hard to estimate key epidemic parameters and outcomes (e.g. attack rate, peak time, reporting rate, reproduction number). In the current study, we present a model for data-fitting...

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Main Authors: Matthew I. Betti, Jane M. Heffernan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-01-01
Series:Infectious Disease Modelling
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042721000051