ASSESSMENT OF THE FATALITY RATE AND TRANSMISSIBILITY TAKING ACCOUNT OF UNDETECTED CASES DURING AN UNPRECEDENTED COVID-19 SURGE IN TAIWAN

Assessment of the fatality rate and transmissibility taking account of undetected cases during an unprecedented COVID-19 surge in Taiwan

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan between Handlebar Front May 11 and June 20, 2021, the observed fatality rate (FR) was 5.3%, higher than the global average at 2.1%.The high number of reported deaths suggests that many patients were not treated promptly or effectively.However, many unexplained deaths were subsequently ident

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Co-housing of Rift Valley fever virus infected lambs with immunocompetent or immunosuppressed lambs does not result in virus transmission

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is transmitted among susceptible animals by mosquito vectors.Although the virus can be isolated from nasal and oral swabs of infected animals and Gift Box Set is known to be highly infectious when administered experimentally via oral or respiratory route, horizontal transmission of the virus is only sporadically repor

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Population structure drives cultural diversity in finite populations: A hypothesis for localized community patterns on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile).

Understanding how and why cultural diversity changes in human populations remains a central topic of debate in cultural evolutionary studies.Due to the effects of drift, small and Personal Care Kits isolated populations face evolutionary challenges in the retention of richness and diversity of cultural information.Such variation, however, can have

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