{"id":13568,"date":"2023-04-02T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=13568"},"modified":"2024-07-31T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:05:05","slug":"a-comparison-of-transmissibility-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/a-comparison-of-transmissibility-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"A comparison of transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By S. S. Manathunga et al.<\/p>\n<p>Source BMC<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"c-article__sub-heading\" data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has currently detected five Variants of Concern of SARS-CoV-2 having the WHO labels of \u2018Alpha\u2019, \u2018Beta\u2019, \u2018Gamma\u2019, \u2018Delta\u2019 and \u2018Omicron\u2019. We aimed to assess and compare the transmissibility of the five VOCs in terms of basic reproduction number, time-varying reproduction number and growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/s12985-023-02018-x.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By S. S. Manathunga et al. Source BMC Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has currently detected five Variants of Concern of SARS-CoV-2 having the WHO labels of \u2018Alpha\u2019, \u2018Beta\u2019, \u2018Gamma\u2019, \u2018Delta\u2019 and \u2018Omicron\u2019. We aimed to assess and compare the transmissibility of the five VOCs in terms of basic reproduction number, time-varying reproduction number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evidence-based-research-in-western-medicine-clinical-practice","category-scientific-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13570,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions\/13570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}