Table 1 Parameter values used in the model

From: Jointly estimating epidemiological dynamics of Covid-19 from case and wastewater data in Aotearoa New Zealand

Parameter

Symbol

Value

Coefficient of variation of Rt transitions

σR

Fitted

Std dev. of CARt transitions

σCAR

Fitted

Reported cases tuning parameter

kc

Fitted

Wastewater tuning parameter

kw

Fitted

Generation time distribution52,53

gu

Mean = 3.3 days, s.d. = 1.3 days

Infection-to-reporting distribution

Lu

Mean = 5.8 days, s.d. = 2.6 days

Infection-to-shedding distribution

ωu

Mean = 5.2 days, s.d. = 2.9 days

Average total genome copies per infection

α

3 × 109 [2 × 109, 4 × 109]

Fixed-lag resampling window

h

30 days

  1. The infection-to-reporting and infection-to-shedding distributions are calculated as convolutions of the incubation period distribution34 and the onset-to-reporting and onset-to-shedding distribution35 respectively (see Supplementary Material Section 2.7).
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