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How Much Can We Reduce COVID–19 Spread by Staying Home? A Lot, New Research Shows – ScienceAlert
There is one number affecting the lives of so many people around the world right now: the reproduction number, also called simply R.
There is one number affecting the lives of so many people around the world right now: the reproduction number, also called simply R.
In the case of infectious diseases such as coronavirus, R determines how many people will be infected by each person who already has the virus. To successfully defeat a pathogen like SARS-CoV2, you need R to be less than 1 meaning each person passes the infection on to less than one other person, which ultimately leads to fewer and fewer people being infected. In …
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