Asymptomatic infectives and $R_0$ for COVID
Populations and Evolution
2020-04-14 v3
Authors:
Giuseppe Gaeta
Abstract
We discuss how the presence of a large set of asymptomatic infectives changes our estimate of the COVID-19 basic reproduction number, also known as R0.
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@article{arxiv.2003.14098,
title = {Asymptomatic infectives and $R_0$ for COVID},
author = {Giuseppe Gaeta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.14098},
year = {2020}
}
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V2: 2 pages, one figure (added in V2). V3: new material aded; now 4 pages, 4 figures
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