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Using early detection data to estimate the date of emergence of an epidemic outbreak
2023-01-11
Abstract excerpt
While the first infection of an emerging disease is often unknown, information on early cases can be used to date it. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, previous studies have estimated dates of emergence (e.g., first human SARS-CoV-2 infection, emergence of the Alpha SARS-CoV-2 variant) using mainly genomic data. Another dating attempt used a stochastic population dynamics approach and the date of the first...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dd447c6e-d3ae-5f99-bdcf-666b73f00a3c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.09.23284284
