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Covid by Numbers with David Spiegelhalter
Intelligence Squared
What's the Value of R?
R is an average over a whole group of people, about how many people anyone who's got an infection would be expected to infect. The basic repro number i was called am not is it ifvarasis a completely virgin population in which nobody's really takingn any precautions. It gives a sort of tilt and balance, ye say, a balancing point ast less than one. And so the epidemic, an sensuy shrinking, is greater than one. It's increasing.
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