A New Era of Epidemiology: Digital Epidemiology for Investigating the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

• Main Authors: He, Zonglin (Author), Zhang, Casper J P (Author), Huang, Jian (Author), Zhai, Jingyan (Author), Zhou, Shuang (Author), Chiu, Joyce Wai-Ting (Author), Sheng, Jie (Author), Tsang, Winghei (Author), Akinwunmi, Babatunde O (Author), Ming, Wai-Kit (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A novel pneumonia-like coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 has swept across China and the world. Public health measures that were effective in previous infection outbreaks (eg, wearing a face mask, quarantining) were implemented in this outbreak. Available m...