We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I ...

This article was last updated on 13 October 2021. The basic reproduction number, also known as the R or R0, is the average number of people one person with an infectious disease will likely infect in ...

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in May 2020 reports the use of a dynamic SEIR model to identify variations in the reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 over time, using machine ...

Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, UK, have recently proposed and applied a correction to EpiEstim, a statistical method to estimate the time-dependent ...