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Higher R0 should reduce the effectiveness of measures like social distancing, shelter-in-place, etc too though - those work by reducing the number of people eac
by makomk 7y ago
Higher R0 should reduce the effectiveness of measures like social distancing, shelter-in-place, etc too though - those work by reducing the number of people each infected person interacts with, but if those interactions are more likely to spread the disease than previously estimated the eventual R you end up with is going to be higher than expected too.
- jkhdigital 7y agoExactly, like HIV started with a high R0 but its transmission mechanism is pretty easy to get a handle on--don't have unprotected sex or donate blood. Once this information is widely known, BAM, low R0. SARS-CoV-2 is quite a different beast, and reducing the R0 might be a hell of a lot more difficult.
- nradov 7y agoThere is no HIV risk in donating blood. The risk was in receiving blood transfusions, before blood banks started doing HIV testing.