First-wave COVID-19 transmissibility and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10233, 2020, Pages 1382-1393

  Leung, Kathy ^a   Wu, Joseph T ^a   Liu, Di ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 85083303331     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30746-7     Document Type: Article

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