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Re:Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications fo... by timr on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:25AM (#24719984)
You can think of it that way, but we never know, in practice, what level of actual immunity exists in a population.

In any case, it's not relevant to my point: R0 is a contextual number, always defined by empirical data. It's not a fixed feature of the virus.

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Re:Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications fo... by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:28AM (#24720022)
Exactly. OP is simply wrong about this.
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