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> Burden is on the parent to prove their claim, not for me to disprove claims advanced without evidence. Multiple people have cited many papers that all genera
by joshuamorton 6y ago
> Burden is on the parent to prove their claim, not for me to disprove claims advanced without evidence.
Multiple people have cited many papers that all generally agree with the trend that influenza has a lower r0. You've discounted those by making what are ultimately statistically unsound claims.
> I cited just such a paper. Please refer to it
The paper you cited supports the other person's contention: that r0 of influenza is lower than that of covid.
- Majromax 6y ago> The paper you cited supports the other person's contention: that r0 of influenza is lower than that of covid. As "the other person[1]," I'd like to point out for the sake of accuracy that the paper you mention here does not in fact study covid. While published in February 2020, the "SARS-CoV" it talks about was SARS 1, not the virus behind the current pandemic. I've taken my prior for covid's R0 from sources such as the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...), which seem to report a best guess of about 2.5 with some room for variation. [1] -- Who is also leaving the argument. We've both made our points well enough for others to form their opinion, and I don't think there's much unexplored territory.