As a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hits many regions worldwide, a new study reports a method to monitor the effective reproduction number (Re) in near real-time. The study, published on the ...
A new study shows how face masks reduce the effective reproduction number of COVID-19, and why their efficacy varies between different environments under virus-limited and virus-rich conditions.
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 ...