Table 1 The estimated mean and 95% CI of parameters.

From: The effect of population size for pathogen transmission on prediction of COVID-19 spread

Parameters

GEC

China

Contact rate \(\alpha\)

0.1055 \(\left( 0.0927, 0.1182\right)\)

0.0714 \(\left( 0, 0.2260\right)\)

Transfer rate \(\beta\)

0.0937 \(\left( 0.0683, 0.1191\right)\)

0.0554 \(\left( 0, 0.1841\right)\)

Remove rate \(r^1+r^2\)

0.0453 \(\left( 0.0418, 0.0488\right)\)

0.0584 \(\left( 0, 0.1221\right)\)

Effective reproductive number \(R_e\)

3.0979 \(\left( 3.0968, 3.0990\right)\)

2.4626 \(\left( 2.4142, 2.5111\right)\)