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Old 11-05-2020, 22:49   #3220
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
If you had R at 0.5 and maintained that the infection rate would reduce to zero before it hit 80% of the population. Say there’s a million people with it currently - they’d infect half a million - then quarter of a million - 125k - 64k - and so forth until there’s no infections in the population.
I think need to get your calculator out.

In reality you couldn't maintain R at 0.5. And that's herd immunity.
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