Is this sentence correct?
@Forbes @tarahaelle
“The longer it takes for someone to become contagious and the longer they are contagious, the higher the R0 is. “
The COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease May Be Twice As Contagious As We Thought https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/04/07/the-covid19-coronavirus-disease-may-be-twice-as-contagious-as-we-thought/ …
Longer contagious period is the concern - the longer someone is contagious, particularly if unaware they are infected, the more people they are likely to infect
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Yes. But the statement made is that longer Latent period leads to longer R0.
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I have the same question—why would the latent period influence R0? (I realize I wrote that, but I was communicating what the paper notes and don’t know the reasons.)
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