Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a harsh reminder of the fact that, whether in a single human host or a wave of infection across continents, viral dynamics is often a story about the numbers. In this article we provide a one-stop, curated graphical source for the key numbers (based mostly on the peer-reviewed literature) about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is responsible for the pandemic. The discussion is framed around two broad themes: i) the biology of the virus itself; ii) the characteristics of the infection of a single human host.

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PandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakVirologyBiologyHost (biology)VirusMedicineGeneticsInfectious disease (medical specialty)OutbreakDiseasePathology

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2020
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9
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Yinon M. Bar‐On, Avi I. Flamholz, Rob Phillips et al. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers. eLife , 9 . https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.57309

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10.7554/elife.57309