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To: Diogenesis

I’m not mistaken, I am describing a model that is commonly used to illustrate how contagious a disease is.

It is a model, used to convey information on how fast a disease “might” spread, not how many will be infected by a single person in reality.

It is a simple fact that if you put a person infected with measles on a plane full of un-immunized people, you are going to have a far, FAR different spread of a disease in an incredibly short period of time, than you would if you put someone on Ebola on a plane full of people.

That is what R0 is meant to convey.


50 posted on 10/29/2014 6:21:16 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: rlmorel

What utter nonsense.

You have a better model, modeling a race horse as a sphere.


51 posted on 10/29/2014 6:53:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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