id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-262069-j3x08scy Puglisi, Lisa B. Estimation of COVID-19 Basic Reproduction Ratio in a Large Urban Jail in the United States 2020-09-09 .txt text/plain 956 65 52 title: Estimation of COVID-19 Basic Reproduction Ratio in a Large Urban Jail in the United States The basic reproduction ratio ( ) for the virus was estimated to be close to 3 in the prison population, far higher than for the general population (2) . We estimate the of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus in a large urban jail in the United States. We used a dynamic transmission model to calculate for a large urban jail in a U.S. city with an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. The model is a modified SEIR model and includes the J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f following COVID-19 disease states: susceptible ( ), exposed ( ), infected symptomatic ( ), infected asymptomatic ( ), quarantined ( ), hospitalized ( ), recovered ( ), and dead ( ). ./cache/cord-262069-j3x08scy.txt ./txt/cord-262069-j3x08scy.txt