TY - JOUR AU - Ng, Sheryl Hui-Xian AU - Kaur, Palvinder AU - Kremer, Cécile AU - Tan, Woan Shin AU - Tan, Aidan Lyanzhiang AU - Hens, Niel AU - Toh, Matthias Paul AU - Teow, Kiok Liang AU - Kannapiran, Palvannan T1 - Estimating Transmission Parameters for COVID-19 Clusters by Using Symptom Onset Data, Singapore, January–April 2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 582 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We estimated the generation interval distribution for coronavirus disease on the basis of serial intervals of observed infector–infectee pairs from established clusters in Singapore. The short mean generation interval and consequent high prevalence of presymptomatic transmission requires public health control measures to be responsive to these characteristics of the epidemic. KW - COVID-19 KW - coronavirus disease KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - Singapore DO - 10.3201/eid2702.203018 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-3018_article ER - End of Reference