Estimation of the effective reproductive number R t is important for detecting changes in
disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Background As the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic continues its rapid global spread, quantification of local transmission patterns has …

The effective reproductive number R e is a key indicator of the growth of an epidemic. Since
the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many methods and online dashboards have sprung …

Abstract background. The effective reproduction number R e (t) is a critical measure of
epidemic potential. R e (t) can be calculated in near real time using an incidence time series …

A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as a global threat in December 2019. As the
epidemic progresses, disease modellers continue to focus on estimating the basic …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reproduction number [Formula: see text]
has become a popular epidemiological metric used to communicate the state of the …

Estimates of the reproductive number for novel pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2, are essential for understanding the potential trajectory of …

SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread from a regional outbreak to a global pandemic in just a few
months. Global research efforts have focused on developing effective vaccines against …

After slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, many countries have
started to relax their confinement measures in the face of critical damage to socioeconomic …

The pooled global R0 estimate for COVID-19 is 4.08 (95% CI, 3.09–5.39). New and shifting
epicenters have been developed across the world. The high R0 estimates suggest that an …