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• zaroth 7y ago
  Ebola is a perfect example of an extremely hard to spread infection that stands zero chance of ever propagating in the US. Only in areas where it’s common to have close contact with infected during their dying days while they are vomiting and hemorrhage blood can Ebola spread with an R0 approaching even 1.5.
  • SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
    Yeah, I think Ebola is a pretty strong argument against using R0 for public consumption. Ebola has never spread in the presence of a functioning health system, and even without a functioning health system outbreaks have been localized - a metric showing it's as contagious as the common cold is not measuring the common-sense definition of "contagious".