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cord-315587-jelh8o3v	Dye, C.	The scale and dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics across Europe	2020-06-29		.txt	text/plain	3994	201	58	Here we investigate how the scale and dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics differ among 26 European countries in which the numbers of reported deaths varied more than 100-fold. Here we investigate how the scale and dynamics of COVID-19 epidemics differ among 26 European countries in which the numbers of reported deaths varied more than 100-fold. This empirical analysis highlights the benefits of intervening early to curtail COVID-19 epidemics: the cumulative number of deaths reported in each country by 20 June was 60-200 times the number reported by the date of lockdown. Fig 1 was constructed with a compartmental model of SARS CoV-2 transmission, framed in ordinary differential equations, and representing a homogeneously mixing population divided among susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered or died (SEIR), as follows: (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.	./cache/cord-315587-jelh8o3v.txt	./txt/cord-315587-jelh8o3v.txt