diggerfoot
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Interesting. Thank you for providing those numbers. They are in line with what I suspect is happening.Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated that the R0 value for COVID-19 is “likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6.”
Measles has an R0 that is "often cited to be 12-18," and the flu has an R0 of about 1.3, according to the New York Times.
According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University professor of medicine, the coronavirus death rate may be “orders of magnitude” lower than the initial estimates.