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Tradeoff between speed and reproductive number in pathogen evolution

2022-06-30

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The rapid succession of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emphasizes the need to understand the factors driving pathogen evolution. Here, we investigate a possible tradeoff between the rate of progression of a disease and its reproductive number. Using an SEIR framework, we show that in the exponential growth phase of an epidemic, there is an optimal disease duration that balances the advantage of a fast disease progress...

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Literature Corpus work: 0cbceac1-100e-5d1d-a2e3-c8d761bd139b
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.30.22277094

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