{"id":7241,"date":"2020-06-01T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:35:55","slug":"estimation-of-the-basic-reproduction-number-average-incubation-time-asymptomatic-infection-rate-and-case-fatality-rate-for-covid-19-meta-analysis-and-sensitivity-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/estimation-of-the-basic-reproduction-number-average-incubation-time-asymptomatic-infection-rate-and-case-fatality-rate-for-covid-19-meta-analysis-and-sensitivity-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number, Average Incubation Time, Asymptomatic Infection Rate, and Case Fatality Rate for COVID-19: Meta-Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">performed a meta-analysis of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">22 studies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that evaluate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">measures of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">dynamics\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and estimated the basic reproduction number<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to be 3.15 (95% CI 2.41, 3.90), the average incubation time to be 5.08 days (4.77, 5.39), the asymptomatic infection rate to be 46% (18.48%, 73.60%), and the case fatality rate to be 2.72% (1.29%, 4.16%) whe<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0asymptomatic infections are\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">included<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">He et al. (May 29, 2020). Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number, Average Incubation Time, Asymptomatic Infection Rate, and Case Fatality Rate for COVID-19: Meta-Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis. Journal of Medical Virology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26041\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26041<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He et al.\u00a0performed a meta-analysis of\u00a022 studies\u00a0that evaluate\u00a0measures of COVID-19\u00a0dynamics\u00a0and estimated the basic reproduction number\u00a0(R0)\u00a0to be 3.15 (95% CI 2.41, 3.90), the average incubation time to be 5.08 days (4.77, 5.39), the asymptomatic infection rate to be 46% (18.48%, 73.60%), and the case fatality rate to be 2.72% (1.29%, 4.16%) when\u00a0asymptomatic infections are\u00a0included.\u00a0\u00a0 He et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/estimation-of-the-basic-reproduction-number-average-incubation-time-asymptomatic-infection-rate-and-case-fatality-rate-for-covid-19-meta-analysis-and-sensitivity-analysis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}