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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by polote on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:06PM (#28408762)
I didn't come up to the number 10 because 10 * 11% is about 100%. its just a random guess about small impact measure

We know that R of covid in a naive environment is probably more than 4. So any group of measure that dont reduce it 1 is not going to be enough. There is no 1.05 in reality for covid. When you are at 1.05 it is already because of group of measures are in place

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Re:Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanfo... by jacquesm on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:16PM (#28408865)
> When you are at 1.05 it is already because of group of measures are in place

Ah and here I was thinking you thought those weren't effective. Ok, sorry.

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