Estimating and explaining the spread of COVID-19 at the county level in the USA

AR Ives, C Bozzuto - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
The basic reproduction number, R0, determines the rate of spread of a communicable
disease and therefore gives fundamental information needed to plan public health …

State-by-State estimates of R0 at the start of COVID-19 outbreaks in the USA

AR Ives, C Bozzuto - MedRXiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
We estimated the initial rate of spread (r 0) and basic reproduction number (R0) for States in
the USA experiencing COVID-19 epidemics by analyzing death data time series using a …