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Re:What we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic by usrusr on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:42AM (#22544929)
Early can mean "at a low percentage" (which would be good) and not just "reached fast" (which would be very bad, unless also at low percentage). The percentage is directly depending on R0 (which apparently isn't easy to get below 1 even with China-grade measures).
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