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Is there a way to derive infection rate from the R0 value? Because we don't even get close to 50% infection with the flu, and covid's R0 isn't like measles or a
by tunesmith 7y ago
Is there a way to derive infection rate from the R0 value? Because we don't even get close to 50% infection with the flu, and covid's R0 isn't like measles or anything.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoThere's no way to derive infection rate at all, unfortunately. Even for pandemics in the past, where we can go back and look at all the epidemological data, estimates of infection rates tend to vary by at least 10 percentage points.
- greedo 7y agoWe don't really have an accurate infection rate from the flu since we don't test for it. Most of the flu data is collected via surveys...
- DanBC 7y agoDon't forget we have massive campaigns to immunise against flu.