Supplementary appendix to: Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 mortality during the early stages of an epidemic: a modeling study in Hubei, China, and six regions in Europe

2 Transmission model 8 2.1 General structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Force of infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3 Incubation, infectiousness and symptom onset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4 Proportion of symptomatic infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.5 Contribution of presymptomatic transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.6 Control measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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