Bi Q, Wu Y, Mei S, et al. Epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19 in 391 cases and 1286 of their close contacts in Shenzhen, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis 2020; published online April 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30287-5—In the last two paragraphs of the Results section, R=2·6 should be R 0=2·6. An updated version of the online appendix has also been supplied. These corrections have been made to the online version as of May 5, 2020, and will be made to the printed version.
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Correction to Lancet Infectious Diseases 2020; published online April 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30287-5
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This corrects the article "Epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19 in 391 cases and 1286 of their close contacts in Shenzhen, China: a retrospective cohort study" on page 911.