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Exact solution of infection dynamics with gamma distribution of generation intervals

2020-10-20

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Infectious disease outbreaks are expected to grow exponentially in time but their initial dynamics is less known. Here I derive analytical expressions for the infectious disease dynamics with a gamma distribution of generation intervals. Excluding the exponential distribution, the outbreak grows as a power law at short times. At long times the dynamics is exponential with a growth rate determined by the basic repr...

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Literature Corpus work: 7683fe27-2a5e-53ed-9470-9fd91563d68a
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.17.20214262

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