Using the COVID-19 to influenza ratio to estimate early pandemic spread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, US
Using the COVID-19 to influenza ratio to estimate early pandemic spread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, US
Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019. Twenty-one days later, the US identified its first case--a man who had traveled from Wuhan to the state of Washington. Recent studies in the Wuhan and Seattle metropolitan areas retrospectively tested samples taken from patients with COVID-like symptoms. …