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To: rdl6989
"HOLY MOTHER OF GOD - the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad - never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating... #WuhanCoronovirus #CoronavirusOutbreak"

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905

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455 posted on 01/24/2020 9:05:45 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

“HOLY MOTHER OF GOD - the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad - never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating... #WuhanCoronovirus #CoronavirusOutbreak”

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What do those numbers mean, in layman’s terms? Does that mean each person who gets it infects 3.8 people?


464 posted on 01/24/2020 9:13:04 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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474 posted on 01/24/2020 9:21:06 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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