Assessing the potential impact of transmission during prolonged viral shedding on the effect of lockdown relaxation on COVID-19.

A key parameter in epidemiological modeling which characterizes the spread of an infectious disease is the generation time, or more generally the distribution of infectiousness as a function of time since infection. There is increasing evidence supporting a prolonged viral shedding window for COVID-...

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Main Authors: Burcu Tepekule, Anthony Hauser, Viacheslav N Kachalov, Sara Andresen, Thomas Scheier, Peter W Schreiber, Huldrych F Günthard, Roger D Kouyos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008609