Rapid review and meta-analysis of serial intervals for SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants

ZJ Madewell, Y Yang, IM Longini Jr, ME Halloran… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background The serial interval is the period of time between symptom onset in the primary
case and symptom onset in the secondary case. Understanding the serial interval is …

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

KM Gostic, L McGough, EB Baskerville… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Estimation of the effective reproductive number R t is important for detecting changes in
disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Assessing changes in incubation period, serial interval, and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a systematic review and meta-analysis

X Xu, Y Wu, AG Kummer, Y Zhao, Z Hu, Y Wang, H Liu… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background After the first COVID-19 wave caused by the ancestral lineage, the pandemic
has been fueled from the continuous emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants …

The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak

SW Park, DM Cornforth, J Dushoff, JS Weitz - Epidemics, 2020 - Elsevier
The role of asymptomatic carriers in transmission poses challenges for control of the COVID-
19 pandemic. Study of asymptomatic transmission and implications for surveillance and …

Estimating the serial interval of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a statistical analysis using the public data in Hong Kong from January 16 to February 15 …

S Zhao, D Gao, Z Zhuang, MKC Chong, Y Cai… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: The emerging virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2), has caused a large outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since the …

Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) …

SW Park, BM Bolker… - Journal of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged as a global threat in December 2019. As the
epidemic progresses, disease modellers continue to focus on estimating the basic …

Intrinsic generation time of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: An observational study of household transmission

M Manica, A De Bellis, G Guzzetta… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Starting from the final months of 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
expanded globally, swiftly replacing Delta, the variant that was dominant at the time. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the generation interval and inferring the latent period of COVID-19 from the contact tracing data

S Zhao, B Tang, SS Musa, S Ma, J Zhang, M Zeng… - Epidemics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged by end of 2019, and became a
serious public health threat globally in less than half a year. The generation interval and …

Inferring the differences in incubation-period and generation-interval distributions of the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2

SW Park, K Sun, S Abbott, R Sender… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Estimating the differences in the incubation-period, serial-interval, and generation-interval
distributions of SARS-CoV-2 variants is critical to understanding their transmission …

Estimation in emerging epidemics: biases and remedies

T Britton, G Scalia Tomba - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When analysing new emerging infectious disease outbreaks, one typically has
observational data over a limited period of time and several parameters to estimate, such as …