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Originally Posted by whomario
Could you post the link ?
To be fair, R0 is not a static number but is dependent on circumstances and especially with a new disease you will get a wide spread of results depending on where and when you try and calculate it.
That's why many experts will talk about the goal being to lower it to 1 with enough measures in place.
There is an inherent quality/quantity based on the properties of a virus but there's lots of factors. For example Influenza is about 1.4/1.5 but if you were to find a population of Humans without ever coming in contact with it, that number would jump a lot and even now this will be higher in cities versus country and lower in regions with lots of vaccination or many cases the year before.
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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
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