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. 2020 Jul 4;5:409–441. doi: 10.1016/j.idm.2020.06.008

Table 5.

Information and values for each parameter in our differential equation based households model.

Parameter Value Details
Doubling time 3 days Number of days until the number of cases doubles
rpi 1/3 Inverse prodromal period
ri 1/4 Inverse infectious period
rep 1/5 Inverse latent period
Η 0.8 Inverse exponential scaling of transmission with household size
αW 0.65 Adherence to household isolation
Ε 0.65 Reduction in global transmission
τp 0.4 Secondary attack probability for a two-person household with one susceptible and one prodrome
τi 0.8 Secondary attack probability for a two-person household with one susceptible and one infective