Consistent pattern of epidemic slowing across many geographies led to longer, flatter initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To define appropriate planning scenarios for future pandemics of respiratory pathogens, it is important to understand the initial transmission dynamics of COVID-19 during 2020. Here, we fit an age-stratified compartmental model with a flexible underlying transmission term to daily COVID-19 death dat...

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Published in:PLoS Computational Biology
Main Authors: Michal Ben-Nun, Pete Riley, James Turtle, Steven Riley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-08-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010375&type=printable