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Table 1 Model parameters

From: A prospect on the use of antiviral drugs to control local outbreaks of COVID-19

Name

Mean value (SD)

Distribution

Reference

Incubation period

5.2 days (2.8 days)

Weibull

[11, 12]

Symptomatic period length

18 days

Exponential

[13]

Time to diagnosis

3.8 days (2.45 days)

Gamma

[14]

Basic reproduction number

 Symptomatic \( {\mathcal{R}}_0^s \)

2.5

NA

[11, 12, 15, 16]

 Asymptomatic \( {\mathcal{R}}_0^a \)

1.375

NA

[17]

Symptomatic Individuals

69%

NA

[18]

Severe cases

16%

NA

[19]

Population size

1000

NA

Motivated in the text

Daily contact rate

12 contacts

NA

[20]

Infectiousness measure

10 days (3.8 days)

Gamma

[13, 21, 22]