A pitfall in estimating the effective reproductive number Rt
 for COVID-19

Markus Petermann; Daniel Wyler

doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20307

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A pitfall in estimating the effective reproductive number Rt for COVID-19

Markus Petermann⁺⁻
Daniel Wyler⁺⁻

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20307
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20307
Published: 13.07.2020

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ETH Zürich. Monitoring COVID-19 spread in Switzerland. [Internet] Available at: https://bsse.ethz.ch/cevo/research/sars-cov-2/real-time-monitoring-in-switzerland.html. Cited on: 2020 May 13
Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task force. Effective reproductive number. [Internet] Available at: https://ncs-tf.ch/en/situation-report
Scire J, Nadeau S, Vaughan T, Brupbacher G, Fuchs S, Sommer J, et al. Reproductive number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland with a focus on the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20271. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20271
Abbott S, Hellewell J, Thompson RN, Sherratt K, Gibbs HP, Bosse NI, et al. Estimating the time-varying reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 using national and subnational case counts. Wellcome Open Res. 2020;5:112. doi:https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16006.1
https://github.com/daenuprobst/covid19-cases-switzerland
Lemaitre JC, Perez-Saez J, Azman AS, Rinaldo A, Fellay J. Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20295. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20295
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an der Heiden M, Hamouda O. Schätzung der aktuellen Entwicklung der SARS-CoV-2-Epidemie in Deutschland - Nowcasting. Epid Bull. 2020;17:10–5. doi:. See https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/6650.4 for updated versionhttps://doi.org/10.25646/6692.2
Nishiura H, Linton NM, Akhmetzhanov AR. Serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;93:284–6. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.060

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Petermann M, Wyler D. A pitfall in estimating the effective reproductive number Rt for COVID-19. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2020 Jul. 13 [cited 2024 Nov. 23];150(2930):w20307. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2836

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[1] ETH Zürich. Monitoring COVID-19 spread in Switzerland. [Internet] Available at: https://bsse.ethz.ch/cevo/research/sars-cov-2/real-time-monitoring-in-switzerland.html. Cited on: 2020 May 13

[2] Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task force. Effective reproductive number. [Internet] Available at: https://ncs-tf.ch/en/situation-report

[3] Scire J, Nadeau S, Vaughan T, Brupbacher G, Fuchs S, Sommer J, et al. Reproductive number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland with a focus on the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20271. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20271

[4] Abbott S, Hellewell J, Thompson RN, Sherratt K, Gibbs HP, Bosse NI, et al. Estimating the time-varying reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 using national and subnational case counts. Wellcome Open Res. 2020;5:112. doi:https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16006.1

[5] https://github.com/daenuprobst/covid19-cases-switzerland

[6] Lemaitre JC, Perez-Saez J, Azman AS, Rinaldo A, Fellay J. Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20295. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20295

[7] Flaxman S, Mishra S, Gandy A, Unwin HJT, Mellan TA, Coupland H, et al.; Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team. Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe. Nature. 2020. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7

[8] an der Heiden M, Hamouda O. Schätzung der aktuellen Entwicklung der SARS-CoV-2-Epidemie in Deutschland - Nowcasting. Epid Bull. 2020;17:10–5. doi:. See https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/6650.4 for updated versionhttps://doi.org/10.25646/6692.2

[9] Nishiura H, Linton NM, Akhmetzhanov AR. Serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;93:284–6. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.060