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Editorial
. 2020 Aug;110(8):1169-1170.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305770. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

No Detectable Surge in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Attributable to the April 7, 2020 Wisconsin Election

Kathy Leung  1 , Joseph T Wu  1 , Kuang Xu  1 , Lawrence M Wein  1
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Editorial

No Detectable Surge in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Attributable to the April 7, 2020 Wisconsin Election

Kathy Leung et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Aug.
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FIGURE 1—
FIGURE 1—
SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics Surrounding the April 7, 2020 Election in Wisconsin: (a) Number of Daily Confirmed SARS-CoV2 Cases in Wisconsin, March 15–April 19; (b) Estimated Instantaneous Reproduction Number Rt (and 95% Confidence Intervals) Each Day, March 25 (the Start of the Safer-at-Home-Order in Wisconsin) to April 18 Using 2 Different Methods; (c) Number of SARS-CoV-2 Tests Performed Each Day, March 15–April 18; (d) Number of New SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalizations in Wisconsin Each Day, March 30–April 18 Note. The thick bar in each panel depicts April 7, 2020, the date of the Wisconsin election. In generating the curve in panel C, a possible misentry in the original data set led to the cumulative test count on March 29 being smaller than the day before; in response, we replaced the March 29 cumulative case count by the average value between March 28 and 30.
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