The UK’s delta surge is collapsing

Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by sandworm101 on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:17PM (#28044361)

Delta's R numbers are not uniform, but certainly are not 0.

Some easy-to-grab stats from Canada's worst covid province which is dealing with a Delta wave:

    Alberta provincewide: 1.48 (1.38-1.59)
    Edmonton Zone: 1.37 (1.15-1.61)
    Calgary Zone: 1.50 (1.37-1.64)
    Rest of Alberta: 1.48 (1.26-1.73)

https://www.alberta.ca/covid-19-alberta-data.aspx (Fyi, Alberta is Canada's version of West Virginia. It is the national heart of COVID resistance/denial.)

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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by manwe150 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:23AM (#28045698)

I don’t know any specifics about this, so this as an attempt at asking questions of what to possibly expect from those numbers. Alberta seems to be 63% vaccinated, which seems to put them well above average for the US? And it looks like those numbers are currently computed for the day before the latest surge in cases took off?

Edit: later learned the parent is talking about R0 and you are talking about Rt, so those numbers are not directly comparable anyways.

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Re:The UK’s delta surge is collapsing by sandworm101 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:30AM (#28047964)

Oh. Whenever i see "R number" i think Rt. Thats what the news and government spokespeople use.

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