Rebuttal to Flaws in the Paper ‘Nearly Instantaneous Time-Varying Reproduction Number for Contagious Diseases—a Direct Approach Based on Nonlinear Regression’
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Rebuttal to Flaws in the Paper ‘Nearly Instantaneous Time-Varying Reproduction Number for Contagious Diseases—a Direct Approach Based on Nonlinear Regression’
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