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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam

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The R0 of Coronaviruses

As of March 8th we had 105,820 confirmed cases worldwide and 3,558 deaths. The disease that it causes is named COVID-19. For each person infected they infect about three or four other people. Every day you get a multiplier of 1.5 which means over a week, you get amultiplier of 20. So after two weeks, you've infected the world in just two months. That's the way this virus works.

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