» Published on
7. April 2020
Daily Estimates for the Spread of COVID-19
Daily Estimates for the Spread of COVID-19
A new website tracking
the COVID-19 epidemic which is updated daily allows everyone to stay
informed about the speed of epidemic spread in Germany and the rest of
the world. To this end, scientists of Technische Universität Ilmenau
cooperate with public health scientists of Universität Bielefeld to
estimate the reproduction number, i.e. the mean number of people one
infectious person will in turn infect. It allows to quantify the impact
of the countermeasures that have been imposed, and also to continuously
track the epidemic‘s progress over time. As such it is an important tool
for policymakers.
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