Estimating the reproductive number and the outbreak size of COVID-19 in Korea

Epidemiology and Health

Volumn 42, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Choi, Sunhwa ^a   Ki, Moran ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

COVID 19; Epidemiology; Korea; Mathematical model; Outbreak; Reproduction number

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRINAE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; PANDEMIC; PATIENT ISOLATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOUTH KOREA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANDEMICS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 85083063040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20927193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2020011     Document Type: Article

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