Yahoo News Australia

Why we corrected our estimates for the reproduction number of two COVID subvariants

We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I ...
The Conversation

New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased

Freya Shearer receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Government Departments of Health and Foreign Affairs and Trade, and NSW Health. Catherine Bennett ...
Reuters

Fact Check: No evidence Omicron BA.5 is more infectious than measles or is 'the most infectious virus known'

Scientists say there is no evidence that the BA.5 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than measles, or that it has a basic reproduction number, or "R-naught" (R0), of 18.6 ...
Popular Science

Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective.

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New Scientist

R number

This article was last updated on 13 October 2021. The basic reproduction number, also known as the R or R0, is the average number of people one person with an infectious disease will likely infect in ...