How Will Country-based Mitigation Measures Influence the Course of the COVID-19 Epidemic?

Overview

Journal Lancet

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2020 Mar 14

PMID 32164834

Citations 1317

Authors

Roy M Anderson

Hans Heesterbeek

Don Klinkenberg

T Deirdre Hollingsworth

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