Translating transmissibility measures into recommendations for coronavirus prevention

• Main Authors: Fredi Alexander Diaz-Quijano (Author), Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Morales (Author), Eliseu Alves Waldman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT The rapid increase in clinical cases of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, suggests high transmissibility. However, the estimates of the basic reproductive number reported in the literature vary widely. Considering this, we drew the function of contact-rate reduction required to control...