Table 1.

Parameter values for Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6, Fig. 7, Fig. 8. Most of the fixed parameters are taken from the references (Althaus, Mupapa et al., 1999, WHO, 2014b, WHO-Ebola-Response-Team, 2014, Chowell and Nishiura, 2014, Eichner et al., 2011, Kucharski and Edmunds, 2014).

Transmission	Value	Treatment	Value	Donation	Value
N	$12\times {10}^6$	${\gamma }_T$	0.053 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$	σ	1/28 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$
$\beta \left(t\right)$	$\kappa ·R_0·\exp (-0.0023t)$	${\gamma }_P$	0.05 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$	α	$-\ln \left(1-p_d\right){\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$
$1/\rho$	11.4 days	${\mu }_T$	$3{\gamma }_T/7$	ω	Same as α
κ	0.2 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$	${\mu }_P$	$3{\gamma }_P/7$	ξ	$-\ln \left(1-p_c\right){\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$
μ	0.0 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$	η	1.0 ${\mathrm{day}}^{-1}$	$p_d$	90%a
R0	1.51	K	1–500 unitsa	$p_c$	10%a
		B(0)	0–200 unitsa	$\tau$	56 days to 16 wks for CWB
					2 wks for CP
				$1/\lambda$	35 days for CWB
					40 days for CP
				ϵ	50%a

CWB: convalescent whole blood; CP: convalescent plasma.

^aAssumed values.