I'm still curious about the relationship between R0 and doubling period, because you can kind of see a relationship between the two by examining contagion perio

I'm still curious about the relationship between R0 and doubling period, because you can kind of see a relationship between the two by examining contagion period. In general we've seen doubling periods that seem to suggest 5-6 days, but occasionally as fast as 3 days, unclear how distorted those numbers are by testing and mitigation and misattributed deaths. If it has a natural R0 of 6, then it means that an infection will infect 6 others within that contagion period. If we're thinking R0 is not 2-3 but is instead 5-6, then to make consistent with the doubling periods we are seeing, it'd mean that people are contagious for a longer period of time than we first thought.