Estimating the Serial Interval of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID
medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.21.20026559; this version posted February 25, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . 1 Estimating the serial interval of the novel coronavirus disease 2 (COVID-19): A statistical analysis using the public data in Hong Kong 3 from January 16 to February 15, 2020 4 Shi Zhao1,2,*, Daozhou Gao3, Zian Zhuang4, Marc KC Chong1,2, Yongli Cai5, Jinjun Ran6, Peihua Cao7, Kai 5 Wang8, Yijun Lou4, Weiming Wang5,*, Lin Yang9, Daihai He4,*, and Maggie H Wang1,2 6 7 1 JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 8 2 Shenzhen Research Institute of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China 9 3 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China 10 4 Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 11 5 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian, China 12 6 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 13 7 Clinical Research Centre, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 14 8 Department of Medical Engineering and Technology, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830011, China 15 9 School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 16 * Correspondence
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