Epidemiological characteristics and transmission dynamics of the outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Shanghai, China: A descriptive study

• Main Authors: Zhiyuan Chen (Author), Xiaowei Deng (Author), Liqun Fang (Author), Kaiyuan Sun (Author), Yanpeng Wu (Author), Tianle Che (Author), Junyi Zou (Author), Jun Cai (Author), Hengcong Liu (Author), Yan Wang (Author), Tao Wang (Author), Yuyang Tian (Author), Nan Zheng (Author), Xuemei Yan (Author), Ruijia Sun (Author), Xiangyanyu Xu (Author), Xiaoyu Zhou (Author), Shijia Ge (Author), Yuxia Liang (Author), Lan Yi (Author), Juan Yang (Author), Juanjuan Zhang (Author), Marco Ajelli (Author), Hongjie Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: In early March 2022, a major outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant spread rapidly throughout Shanghai, China. Here we aimed to provide a description of the epidemiological characteristics and spatiotemporal transmission dyna...