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Doh! Thanks for catching that. That is a really glaring mistake on my part. (The irony in me having said it was "exactly" what Wikipedia says is not lost on me
by ryankemper 6y ago
Doh! Thanks for catching that. That is a really glaring mistake on my part.
(The irony in me having said it was "exactly" what Wikipedia says is not lost on me :P)
https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/093ade62944768b5cd8627aaf81f94cc613483ff https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/093ade629447...
- xscott 6y agoNo worries - it was clearly just a typo :-)
- ryankemper 6y agoIt is fun to imagine the negative herd immunity threshold implied by the erroneous form of the equation though :P Say R0 is 2, 1/(1 - R0) means that we already hit herd immunity before SARS-CoV-2 even existed!
- xscott 6y agoThe frightening one for me was R0 == 1: Basically, we'd need a positive or negative infinite percentage of people to be infected depending on which direction you approach it from.