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Table 6 Model parameterisation for the three considered variants of concern (i.e., ancestral, Delta, and Omicron) adopted by AMTraC-19

From: Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity across census years, variants of concern and interventions

Model parameters

Ancestral

Delta

Omicron

Note

\(\kappa\)

2.75

5.3

23

Global transmission scalar

\(T_{inc}\), mean

5 (\(\mu\)=1.609 \(\sigma\)=0.00001)

4.4 (\(\mu\)=1.396 \(\sigma\)=0.413)

3 (\(\mu\)=1.013 \(\sigma\)=0.413)

Incubation period (log-normal)

\(T_{rec}\), mean and range

12 [12,12]

10.5 [7, 14]

9 [7,11]

Recovery period, mean and range (uniform)

\(T_{lat}\), fixed

2

0

0

Latent period

\(\alpha _{asymp}\)

0.3

Asymptomatic transmission scalar

\(\sigma _a\)

0.67

Probability of symptoms (age > 18)

\(\sigma _c\)

0.268

Probability of symptoms (age \(\le\) 18)

\(\pi _{symp}\)

0.1

Daily case detection probability (symptomatic)

\(\pi _{asymp}\)

0.01

Daily case detection probability (asymptomatic)

\(R_0\), mean and 95% CI

2.77 [2.73,2.83]

5.97 [5.93, 6.00]

19.56 [19.12, 19.65]

Basic reproductive number

\(T_{gen}\), mean and 95% CI

7.62 [7.53, 7.70]

6.88 [6.81, 6.94]

5.42 [5.38, 5.44]

Generation/serial interval

  1. The last two rows show the corresponding basic reproductive number (\(R_0\)) and generation/serial interval (\(T_{gen}\)), calibrated in our previous studies [13, 15, 18, 21]