The contribution of pre-symptomatic infection to the transmission dynamics of COVID-2019 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Background: Pre-symptomatic transmission can be a key determinant of the effectiveness of containment and mitigation strategies for infectious diseases, particularly if interventions rely on syndromic case finding. For COVID-19, infections in the absence of apparent symptoms have been reported frequ...

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Main Authors: Yang Liu, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases nCoV Working Group, Sebastian Funk, Stefan Flasche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2020-04-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-58/v1