02-27-2020, 05:00 PM
R0 is an estimate and based on both the behavior of the virus and its hosts. Think of a virus that might be intrinsically not very infectious, like HIV, which requires intimate contact to spread (offset by the long time period that someone can be infectious but asymptomatic). In a population that has very few sexual partners, the R0 will not be very high; in a population where individuals have a lot of sexual partners, the virus will spread quickly.
Likewise with the coronavirus, which will depend on how much contact and how close the contact is while individuals are able to transmit it.
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Likewise with the coronavirus, which will depend on how much contact and how close the contact is while individuals are able to transmit it.
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