January 31, 2020

Transmission dynamics of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

• Epidemiologic characteristics of confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in China up to January 23 were used to produce time-dependent reproductive numbers. Findings suggest that the rate at which secondary cases are appearing may have been decreasing over the last few weeks.

Liu et al. (Jan 26, 2020). Transmission dynamics of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Pre-Print. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.25.919787v1