Comment on jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… with Sarah Cobey Keya Joshi shows conclusions change dramatically if use more appropriate Wallinga-Teunis method for R(t) estimation. Comment on the site and at github.com/keyajoshi/Pan_… with figure

A big group effort led by Katie Gostic, Lauren McGough, and Sarah Cobey - hope useful to the many of us trying to do this well. Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

As many of you have already realized, it's challenging to estimate R(t) accurately and in near real time. We worked with a great team to summarize lessons learned (1/n) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…