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Generation-time distortion is an emergent property of epidemic control

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    medRxiv (all subjects) obscure study
    Generation-time distortion is an emergent property of epidemic control

    We find that a vast space of public health interventions necessarily reshape the intervals between successive infections, known as generation times, for directly-transmitted infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19, Ebola virus, influenza). While some studies have connected specific interventions (e.g…

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