Table 3.

Up-to-date key epidemiological features of the EVD epidemic in Sierra Leone estimated by the model during the period (18 June–15 August 2015)

Period	Variable	Mean	95% CI
(18 June–16 July 2015)		0.69	0.67 to 0.72
	Network density (α)	0.47	0.42 to 0.51
	Time to death (days)	3.0	2.8 to 3.2
	Time to recovery (days)	20	16 to 30
	CFR (%)	10	8 to 12
		1.38	0.95 to 1.72
(16 July–15 August 2015)		0.75	0.69 to 0.80
	Network density (α)	0.46	0.37 to 0.53
	Time to death (days)	3.0	2.8 to 3.2
	Time to recovery (days)	16	8 to 32
	CFR (%)	10	8 to 12
		0.68	0.47 to 1.01

CFR, case fatality rate (); EVD, Ebola virus disease;, effective reproductive number; , rewiring switching probability.