No argument. I posted for discussion. 5.7 is worse than most anything seen in my lifetime.
Another harm from China’s response is that studies don’t have reliable info from their early experience.
They not only killed by hiding, so we didn’t know what to expect: they’re still killing by preventing us from using early reports to understand.
Measles has an R0 of 12 to 18. That could have been before the vaccine was developed, I suppose.