Attach importance to the procedure of deriving reproduction numbers from compartmental models: Letter to the editor in response to ' Seasonality of the transmissibility of hand, foot and mouth disease: a modelling study in Xiamen City, China'

Affiliations

• ¹ JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ² Shenzhen Research Institute of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
• ³ School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁴ Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁵ SH Ho Scoliosis Research Lab, Joint Scoliosis Research Center of Chinese University of Hong Kong and Nanjing University, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁶ Clinical Research Centre, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.