Table 2. Model parameters and priors/values.
Parameter | Description | Prior/value | Source/Notes |
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Overall contact rate (1/days) | Estimated: Uniform(0,100) | ||
Relative initial contact rate between crew/crew | Fixed: 1 | ||
Relative initial contact rate between passengers/passengers | Estimated: Uniform(0,100) | ||
Relative initial contact rate between passengers/crew | Fixed relative to | ||
X | Ratio: | Fixed: 0.1 | Assumed. Varied in sensitivity analyses |
b1 | Percentage reduction in all initial contact rates (%) | Estimated: Uniform(0,100) | |
b2 | Rate of change of all contact rates (1/days) | Fixed: 10 | Assumed. Transitions completed over approximately one day |
Time of transition for contacts between passengers/passengers and passengers/crew (days) | Estimated: Uniform(0,32) | Assumed to be equal to each other | |
Time of transition for contacts between crew/crew (days) | Estimated: Uniform(0,32) | ||
Relative infectiousness of presymptomatic state | Estimated: Uniform(0,1) | Relative to symptomatic state | |
Relative infectiousness of asymptomatic state | Estimated: Uniform(0,1) | Relative to symptomatic state | |
Proportion of infections that proceed to asymptomatic state | Estimated: Uniform(0,1) | ||
Latent period (days) | Fixed: 4.3 | Derived from Backer et al., 2020 | |
Mean duration in asymptomatic state (days) | Fixed: 5.0 | Assumed. Sum of mean durations in presymptomatic and symptomatic states. Varied in sensitivity analyses. |
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Mean duration in presymptomatic state (days) | Fixed: 2.1 | Derived from Backer et al., 2020 | |
Mean duration in infectious symptomatic state (days). | Fixed: 2.9 | From Liu et al., 2020b Applicable only until quarantine starts on 5th Feb | |
Mean delay between onset of symptomatic disease and symptom-based testing and removal (days). | Fixed: 1 | Assumed. Applicable only after quarantine starts on 5th Feb. | |
Mean duration of test positivity following recovery (days) | Fixed: 7 | From Woelfel et al., 2020 | |
Proportion of symptomatic cases with a reported onset date | Fixed: 0.661 (199/314) | From Mizumoto et al., 2020; Nishiura, 2020 | |
Rate of symptom-agnostic testing and removal (1/days) | Fixed: Calculated | From Mizumoto et al., 2020 Calculated using the number of tests administered per day amongst individuals not reporting symptoms (see Appendix 1) | |
Total number of passengers on the ship as at start of quarantine on 5th Feb | Fixed: 2666 | From NIID, 2020 | |
Total number of crew on the ship as at start of quarantine on 5th Feb | Fixed: 1045 | From NIID, 2020 |