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Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Research on mathematical modeling of ID | Funded opportunities for students/researchers from under-represented groups
Jan 28, 2020 • 38 tweets • 10 min read
Each day we learn more about the #nCOV2019 outbreak. Here is a #tweetorial on 5 key questions and terminology in infectious disease epidemiology to help make sense of all of this information. #1. R0: what does it mean, and what does it tell us? R[subscript]0 -- pronounced R-nought or R-zero, and called the basic reproductive “rate” or number, is the value that summarizes how contagious a pathogen is.