We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I ...
Scientists say there is no evidence that the BA.5 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than measles, or that it has a basic reproduction number, or "R-naught" (R0), of 18.6 ...
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Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, UK, have recently proposed and applied a correction to EpiEstim, a statistical method to estimate the time-dependent ...