DEADLY Chinese CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK_ Coronavirus outbreak: What is an R0 and why is it so important?

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Coronavirus outbreak: What is an R0 and why is it so important?

There have been wildly conflicting reports about how contagious the deadly new strain of coronavirus is and there’s a good reason for it.

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January 29, 20208:34pm

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There are fears the deadly Wuhan coronavirus has already infected at least 40,000 people as public health authorities struggle to predict an accurate contagion rate.

Researchers determine how quickly a virus will spread through a population by calculating a reproductive number known as an R0.

The R0 (R naught) represents how many people an infected individual will transmit the virus to others.

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How a virus with an R0 of two spreads. Picture: The Conversation Source:Supplied

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