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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by slv77 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:23PM (#22963651)
The 1-1/R0 is the point that the virus starts to burn out but there is still a long tail of infections. The total population that is infected will be higher than 1 - 1/R0. Also if the estimates of IFR were too high than the estimates of R0 were too low.
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