Statistics and Its Interface

Volume 14 (2021)

Number 1

Discussion on “The timing and effectiveness of implementing mild interventions of COVID-19 in large industrial regions via a synthetic control method” by Tian et al.

Pages: 19 – 20

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/20-SII645

Author

Yifan Zhu (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)

Abstract

This article provides an overview and discussion of the recent published paper from Tian et al. on modeling the differences of COVID-19 outbreak between Shenzhen and a synthetic population constructed from 68 US counties.

Keywords

COVID-19, transmission model, infectious disease

Full Text (PDF format)

Received 1 October 2020

Accepted 12 October 2020

Published 18 December 2020