The new R-naught number

2023-11-20 09:44:45

The new R-naught number


There's a number used to quantify how fast a virus will spread, the R-naught number.  As the coronavirus spread though out the world, we saw how the threat of infection was measured and understood the mathematics of judging how a population would be affected. Now we're plagued with the Delta variant of the coronavirus.  What was the original virus' R-naught number and what has it become?


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