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My point still stands; vaccines do not change R0. They artificially move people from S -> R.
by skwb 6y ago
My point still stands; vaccines do not change R0. They artificially move people from S -> R.
- strbean 6y agoSounds like they are talking about Re -- effective reproduction rate -- right?
- skwb 6y agoI think you're right. That said, I do wish that people would be a bit more precise (and focus less on generic and confusing jargon) in their language however when discussing epidemiology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number#Effective_reproduction_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number#Effe...
- Someone1234 6y agoIf you're lowing the number of additional people an infected person infects with a disease, that's measured by a lower basic reproduction number (Rx), which was what the poster above was talking about. It being artificially reduction is kind of given as it a vaccine, but as the basic reproduction number is being used to measure the number of reproductions from each [known] infected person within population groups it seems like THE measure of a vaccine's impact. You seem to be talking about something else entirely.