Response to Comments on "Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, from 2019 to 2020: A data-driven Analysis in the early phase of the outbreak"

It is with reference to the recently published Comments (Dhungana, 2020). The 2019-nCoV is similar to the virus of MERS and SARS, therefore, in the published paper (Zhao et al., 2020), the authors used the Serial Interval(SI) in the study as the average of the reported SIs of MERS(Assiri et al.2013) and SARS(Lipsitch et al. 2003). The data has been taken for fifteen days from 10-24 January 2020. The study has been done for the early stage of the pandemic and the estimates of the SIs from earlier published reports were 7.6 ± 3.4 and 8.4 ± 3.8(in days for MERS and SARS), with coefficient of variation(CV) of SI as 44.73% and 45.23%.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Letter to editor Source Type: research