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COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)

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Is the Effective Reproduction Number Different From R0?

There's another number here, the effective reproduction number, Rt. I've been hearing people confuse these two numbers. This is what you're talking about is the transmissibility on day zero. But when we're actually looking at how it lands in these different populations, it's not just the size, as we talked about with Laurent Hebert different on an earlier episode.

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