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How infectious is novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)?
Analyzed by: Dr Siddharth Sridhar, Specialist in Clinical Microbiology & Infection | Last updated: 3rd February 2020 | In: COVID-19, Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Pneumonia, SARS-CoV2
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2019-nCoV, China, corona virus, COVID-19, pneumonia, WARS
The Basic Reproduction Number (or Basic Reproductive Number) is a measure of how ‘infectious’ a pathogen is and how likely it is to spread through a community.
It is a simple number answering a simple question: ‘on average, how many individuals get the disease from one infected patient?’
For an outbreak to come under control, the basic reproduction number must be <1.
Here is the basic reproduction number of 2019-nCoV, as estimated by Wu JT et al in The Lancet. Comparisons with early phase SARS and measles are presented.
The assumptions, calculations and interpretations behind this simple number are quite complicated, but it is a useful metric.
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