| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T34 |
0-150 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Screening will be less effective in a growing epidemic, due to an excess of recently-exposed and not-yet-symptomatic travellers (Gostic et al., 2015). |
| T35 |
151-334 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In the context of COVID-19, we consider both growing and stable epidemic scenarios, but place greater emphasis on the realistic assumption that the COVID-19 epidemic is still growing. |
| T36 |
335-638 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Since late January 2020, the Chinese government has imposed strict travel restrictions and surveillance on population centers heavily affected by COVID-19 (BBC News, 2020; Cellan-Jones, 2020), and numerous other countries have imposed travel and quarantine restrictions on travellers inbound from China. |
| T37 |
639-655 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Until about Feb. |
| T38 |
656-1080 |
Sentence |
denotes |
20, 2020, these measures had appeared to successfully limit community transmission outside of China, but all the while multiple factors pointed to on-going risk, including evidence that transmission is possible prior to the onset of symptoms (Yu et al., 2020; Hu et al., 2020), and reports of citizens seeking to elude travel restrictions or leaving before restrictions were in place (Ma and Pinghui, 2020; Mahbubani, 2020). |
| T39 |
1081-1112 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Now, in the week following Feb. |
| T40 |
1113-1316 |
Sentence |
denotes |
20, 2020, new source epidemics have appeared on multiple continents (World Health Organization, 2020a), and the the risk of exportation of cases from beyond the initial travel-restricted area is growing. |
