An IDEA for Short Term Outbreak Projection: Nearcasting Using the Basic Reproduction Number

• David N. Fisman ,

  * E-mail: david.fisman@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Decision Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DeCIDE), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Tanya S. Hauck,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ashleigh R. Tuite,

  Affiliations The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Decision Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DeCIDE), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Amy L. Greer

  Affiliations The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Decision Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DeCIDE), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Modeling and Projection Section of the Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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