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Consistent pattern of epidemic slowing across many geographies led to longer, flatter initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
To define appropriate planning scenarios for future pandemics of respiratory pathogens, it is important to understand the initial transmission dynamics of COVID-19 during 2020. Here, we fit an age-stratified compartmental model with a flexible underlying transmission term to daily COVID-19 death data from states in the contiguous U.S. and to …