SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers

By Y. Bar-On, Avi I. Flamholz, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo. eLife, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a harsh reminder of the fact that, whether in a single human host or a wave of infection across continents, viral dynamics is often a story about the numbers. In this article we provide a one-stop, curated graphical source for the key numbers (based mostly on the peer-reviewed literature) about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is responsible for the pandemic. The discussion is framed around two broad themes: i) the biology of the virus itself; ii) the characteristics of the infection of a single human host.

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation

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