Linking key intervention timing to rapid decline of the COVID-19 effective reproductive number to quantify lessons from mainland China

Effective reproductive numbers (Rt) were calculated from data on the COVID-19 outbreak in China and linked to dates in 2020 when different interventions were enacted. From a maximum of 3.98 before the lockdown in Wuhan City, the values of Rt declined to below 1 by the second week of February, after...

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Main Authors: Yanni Xiao, Biao Tang, Jianhong Wu, Robert A. Cheke, Sanyi Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220304495