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Exact solution of infection dynamics with gamma distribution of generation intervals

Exact solution of infection dynamics with gamma distribution of generation intervals

Infectious disease outbreaks are expected to grow exponentially in time but their initial dynamics is less known. Here I derive analytical expressions for the infectious disease dynamics with a gamma distribution of generation intervals. Excluding the exponential distribution, the outbreak grows as a power law at short times. At long …