Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 20, 2020

2019 Novel coronavirus: where we are and what we know

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  • Cheng and Shan provide COVID-19 outbreak overview, including reports from outbreak sites and laboratories supporting the investigation. The paper aggregates and consolidates the virology, epidemiology, clinical management strategies from both English and Chinese literature. 
  • From their single-term exponential model, they report that the infection is spreading at an exponential rate, with a doubling period of 1.8 days.

Cheng and Shan (Feb 18th, 2020). 2019 Novel coronavirus: where we are and what we know. Infection. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01401-y