Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 25, 2020

Early phylogenetic estimate of the effective reproduction number of 2019-nCoV

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  • Lai et al used 15 2019-nCoV genomes to reconstruct the evolutionary dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrating the usefulness of phylogeny in supporting the surveillance of emerging new infections even as the epidemic is growing.

Lai et al (Feb 23, 2020): Early phylogenetic estimate of the effective reproduction number of 2019-nCoV. Pre-print downloaded Feb 25 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.20024851