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

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 o...

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Main Authors: Sang Woo Park, Daniel M. Cornforth, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S. Weitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300190