What Is The Coronavirus’s R₀ and Why Does It Matter?

If you want to describe how an infectious disease spreads, one handy number is what epidemiologists call R0 (“R naught”), the disease’s basic reproductive number. As of now, estimates for the coronavirus’s R0 make it more contagious than the flu, but less than for many other infectious diseases.

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