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. 2021 Jan 13;513:110587. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110587

Table 1.

Parameter definitions and their baseline values from Kissler et al., 2020, except for γ from Verity et al., 2020 and β adjusted to have R0=2.5.

Parameter Value Meaning
β 0.15 disease transmission/infection rate
K 1-6 number of exposed stages
1/ν 5 days incubation time
1/γ 16.6 days infectious period/time to hospitalisation (both non-critical and critical care)
pA 0.5 (assumed) proportion of asymptomatic infections
pR 0.456 (varies) proportion of symptomatic infections without the hospital/critical care requirements
pH 0.0308 (varies) proportion of symptomatic infections requiring hospitalisation, but not critical care
pC 0.0132 (varies) proportion of symptomatic infections requiring critical care
1/δH 8 days recovery rate for non-critical hospital cases
1/δC 8 days average duration from hospital admission to requiring critical care
1/ξC 10 days recovery rate for admissions requiring critical care
μ 0.1 (varies) death rate for admissions requiring critical care