The following articles have estimated the mean value of R0 of SARS-COV-2 to be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

• 2.2 <\/strong>in article [1]<\/li>
• 2.2 <\/strong>in article [2]<\/li>
• 4.4-4.5<\/strong> in article [3]<\/li>
• 2.28<\/strong> in article [4]<\/li>
• 3.11<\/strong> in article [5]<\/li>
• 5.7<\/strong> in article [6]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  Confidence intervals of the above estimations are found in the sources bleow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [1] Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus\u2013Infected Pneumonia, The New England Journal of Medicine, 26 March 2020 \u2013
  https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2001316<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [2] Pattern of Early Human-To-Human Transmission of Wuhan 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), December 2019 to January 2020, Jan 2020 \u2013 https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32019669\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [3] Time-varying transmission dynamics of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in China
  13 Feb 2020, R0 = 4.4 and 4.5 (in two different regions in China) \u2013 https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.01.25.919787v2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [4] \u039dovel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions, 28 Jan 2020, https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/conte\u2026\/10.1101\/2020.01.23.20018549v2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [5] Estimation of the reproductive number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the probable outbreak size on the Diamond Princess cruise ship: A data-driven analysis
  22 Feb 2020 \u2013 https:\/\/www.ijidonline.com\/a\u2026\/S1201-9712(20)30091-6\/fulltext<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  [6] High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Emerging Infectious Diseases; pre-publication of July 2020 – https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/26\/7\/20-0282_article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The following articles have estimated the mean value of R0 of SARS-COV-2 to be: 2.2 in article [1] 2.2 in article [2] 4.4-4.5 in article [3] 2.28 in article [4] 3.11 in article [5] 5.7 in article [6] Confidence intervals of the above estimations are found in the sources bleow: [1] Early Transmission Dynamics in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/index-case.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covid.antibaro.gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}