Authors' response: Estimating the generation interval for COVID-19 based on symptom onset data

Euro Surveill. 2020 Jul;25(29):2001269. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.29.2001269.

Authors

Cécile Kremer¹, Tapiwa Ganyani¹, Dongxuan Chen^{2

3}, Andrea Torneri⁴, Christel Faes¹, Jacco Wallinga^{2

3}, Niel Hens^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ I-BioStat, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
² Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
³ Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁴ Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

PMID: 32720639
PMCID: PMC7384288
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.29.2001269

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; assumptions; generation interval; likelihood; serial interval.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
SARS-CoV-2