National and Subnational Estimates of the Covid 19 Reproduction Number (R) for the United States of America Based on Test Results
- Sam Abbott
- Christopher Bennett
- JHJoe Hickson
- Jamie Allen
- Katharine Sherratt
- Sebastian Funk
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · 2020 · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Abstract
Identifying changes in the reproduction number, rate of spread, and doubling time during the course of the COVID-19 outbreak whilst accounting for potential biases due to delays in case reporting both nationally and subnationally in the United States of America. These results are impacted by changes in testing effort, increases and decreases in testing effort will increase and decrease reproduction number estimates respectively.