Back

Is Nigeria really on top of COVID-19? Message from effective reproduction number

2020-05-20 epidemiology Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract

Following the importation of Covid-19 into Nigeria on the 27 February 2020 and then the outbreak, the question is: how do we anticipate the progression of the ongoing epidemics following all the intervention measures put in place? This kind of question is appropriate for public health responses and it will depend on the early estimates of the key epidemiological parameters of the virus in a defined population. In this study, we combined a likelihood-based method using a Bayesian framework and c...

Predicted journal destinations