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SUBMITTER: Chen D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9747081 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Dongxuan D Lau Yiu-Chung YC Xu Xiao-Ke XK Wang Lin L Du Zhanwei Z Tsang Tim K TK Wu Peng P Lau Eric H Y EHY Wallinga Jacco J Cowling Benjamin J BJ Ali Sheikh Taslim ST
Nature communications 20221213 1
The generation time distribution, reflecting the time between successive infections in transmission chains, is a key epidemiological parameter for describing COVID-19 transmission dynamics. However, because exact infection times are rarely known, it is often approximated by the serial interval distribution. This approximation holds under the assumption that infectors and infectees share the same incubation period distribution, which may not always be true. We estimated incubation period and seri ...[more]