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Evaluation of the number of undiagnosed infected in an outbreak using source of infection measurements
Akiva Bruno Melka
yoram louzoun
Acceso Abierto
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.09.20126318
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.09.20126318v3
In times of outbreaks, an essential requirement for better monitoring is the evaluation of the number of undiagnosed infected individuals. An accurate estimate of this fraction is crucial for the assessment of the situation and the establishment of protective measures. In most current studies using epidemics models, the total number of infected is either approximated by the number of diagnosed individuals or is dependent on the model parameters and assumptions, which are often debated. We here study the relationship between the fraction of diagnosed infected out of all infected, and the fraction of infected with known contaminator out of all diagnosed infected. We show that those two are approximately the same in exponential models and across most models currently used in the study of epidemics, independently of the model parameters. As an application, we compute an estimate of the effective number of infected by the COVID-19 virus in Israel.
bioRxiv
02-09-2020
Preimpreso
Inglés
Público en general
VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS
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