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Private views on epidemics, preparedness, tobacco control and reproductive health by @prebens Aavitsland at @Folkehelseinst and @Arendalkommune
Jan 31, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
THREAD. This story in NEJM (although lacking some detail) about a German cluster of 2019-nCoV cases raises further concerns about transmission from cases both before and after symptoms and from asymptomatic or subclinical cases nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…. #nCoV #NARD 1/ Everyone is now familiar with the R_0 (if not, see this excellent tweetorial ). The R_0 is estimated from the current spread in a naive population and is meant to show the potential for spread. It's not an intrinsic property of the virus. 2/