Re:Covid-19 twice as contagious as previously thought – CDC ...
by nullc on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:15PM
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> Can anyone explain how the virus is twice as infectious as we thought, but we're consistently lowering our death projections everyday?
This article is talking about R0-- a measure of contagion without considering interventions like increasing mask wearing, quarantines, or physical distancing.
The higher the R0 the harder we have to work to push the effective R below 1, as is required to stop the spread... and the wider and faster the spread will be if we don't mitigate it.
This article is talking about R0-- a measure of contagion without considering interventions like increasing mask wearing, quarantines, or physical distancing.
The higher the R0 the harder we have to work to push the effective R below 1, as is required to stop the spread... and the wider and faster the spread will be if we don't mitigate it.