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Correcting the reproduction number for time-varying tests: A proposal and an application to COVID-19 in France

We provide a novel way to correct the effective reproduction number for the time-varying amount of tests, using the acceleration index (Baunez et al., 2021) as a simple measure of viral spread dynamics. Not correcting results in the reproduction number being a biased estimate of viral acceleration a...

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Autores principales: Baunez, Christelle, Degoulet, Mickaël, Luchini, Stéphane, Pintus, Matteo L., Pintus, Patrick A., Teschl, Miriam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9970098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36848355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281943