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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Goyal A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7929560 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goyal Ashish A Reeves Daniel B DB Cardozo-Ojeda E Fabian EF Schiffer Joshua T JT Mayer Bryan T BT
eLife 20210223
SARS-CoV-2 is difficult to contain because many transmissions occur during pre-symptomatic infection. Unlike influenza, most SARS-CoV-2-infected people do not transmit while a small percentage infect large numbers of people. We designed mathematical models which link observed viral loads with epidemiologic features of each virus, including distribution of transmissions attributed to each infected person and duration between symptom onset in the transmitter and secondarily infected person. We ide ...[more]