Estimating the effective reproduction number of the 2019-nCoV in China

  1. Zhidong Cao
  2. Qingpeng Zhang
  3. Xin Lu
  4. Dirk Pfeiffer
  5. Zhongwei Jia
  6. Hongbing Song
  7. Daniel Dajun Zeng
1 evaluations Published on
Read the full article Related papers
This article on Sciety

Abstract

We estimate the effective reproduction number for 2019-nCoV based on the daily reported cases from China CDC. The results indicate that 2019-nCoV has a higher effective reproduction number than SARS with a comparable fatality rate.

Article Summary Line

This modeling study indicates that 2019-nCoV has a higher effective reproduction number than SARS with a comparable fatality rate.

Related articles

Related articles are currently not available for this article.