Under-reporting and case fatality estimates for emerging epidemics
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1Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA 3Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, New Haven, CT, USA 44Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA ⇤Direct correspondence to [email protected], Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 2668
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