We estimate the effective reproduction number for 2019-nCoV based on the daily reported cases from China CDC. The results indicate that 2019-nCoV has a higher effective reproduction number than SARS with a comparable fatality rate. Article Summary Line This modeling study indicates that 2019-nCoV has a higher effective reproduction number than SARS with a comparable fatality rate.
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Cao et al. (2020) studied this question.