Real-time estimation of the risk of death from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection: Inference using exported cases

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2020, Pages

  Jung, Sung Mok ^a   Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R ^a   Hayashi, Katsuma ^a   Linton, Natalie M ^a   Yang, Yichi ^a   Yuan, Baoyin ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuro ^a   Kinoshita, Ryo ^a   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Censoring; Emerging infectious diseases; Importation; Migration; Mortality; Travel

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CASE FATALITY RATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY RISK; NONHUMAN; NOVEL CORONAVIRUS 2019; NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; PANDEMIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

EID: 85114270029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9020523     Document Type: Article

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