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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sat May 30, 2020, 12:09 AM May 2020

First I've heard of "Infectivity Rate"

From local central TX newspaper...

District reported Thursday that four more residents had tested positive, bringing the local case count to 117, with 18 cases active. The increase comes as the statewide “infectivity rate,” the average number of people each infected person spreads the disease to, recently climbed to the fifth highest in the nation

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First I've heard of "Infectivity Rate" (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink May 2020 OP

"the average number of people each infected person spreads the disease to" htuttle May 2020 #1

Yes, thanks, but still don't understand how anyone Laura PourMeADrink May 2020 #2

Look at doubling times for hospitalizations and deaths Freethinker65 May 2020 #3

htuttle

(23,738 posts)

1. "the average number of people each infected person spreads the disease to"

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 12:12 AM

May 2020

Sounds like r0.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

2. Yes, thanks, but still don't understand how anyone

Reply to htuttle (Reply #1)

Sat May 30, 2020, 12:32 AM

May 2020

Even knows that. Especially in TX where trump and abbott are friends and all numbers suspect.

Freethinker65

(10,001 posts)

3. Look at doubling times for hospitalizations and deaths

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 12:43 AM

May 2020

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