Abstract In December 2019, China reported the first cases of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID‐19). This disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome–related …

Objectives To assess the methodologies used in the estimation of diagnostic accuracy of
SARS-CoV-2 real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) and other …

Some key questions lie at the heart of investigations into the origin of the COVID-19
pandemic, including what is known about the earliest COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China …

Numerous observational studies have attempted to identify risk factors for infection with
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease outcomes. Studies have used datasets sampled from …

INTRODUCTION The role of transmission heterogeneities in severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) dynamics remains unclear, particularly those …

As countries in the world review interventions for containing the pandemic of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), important lessons can be drawn from the study of the full …

Since it was first identified, the epidemic scale of the recently emerged novel coronavirus
(2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China, has increased rapidly, with cases arising across China and …

Abstract Started in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 has been spreading all over the world. We
calibrate the logistic growth model, the generalized logistic growth model, the generalized …

Estimating an epidemic's trajectory is crucial for developing public health responses to
infectious diseases, but case data used for such estimation are confounded by variable …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed substantial
challenges to the formulation of preventive interventions, particularly since the effects of …