Identifying the outbreak signal of COVID-19 before the response of the traditional disease monitoring system

• Yaoyao Dai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Nantong City, Nantong, China, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

  ⨯
• Jianming Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jmwang@njmu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9151-284X

  ⨯