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I mean the total number of people sick at any given time, not the total number of people who have ever been infected.
by umanwizard 7y ago
I mean the total number of people sick at any given time, not the total number of people who have ever been infected.
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- baobabKoodaa 7y agoThe parent poster asked "Why would we only expect half the world to get it?". It sounds like your answer to that is "no no, almost everybody will get it, they'll just get it at different times".
- umanwizard 7y agoIf the effective transmission rate is 1, yes, more people will get it, and then the effective rate will go below 1, and you enter exponential decay.