An informative take on the new coronavirus and its R0 metric. The takeaways are that: - R0 will change - R0 sums up a distribution of infectiousness (everyone infects two vs. one person infects 100, 49 infects no one) - the distribution matters morehttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/how-fast-and-far-will-new-coronavirus-spread/605632/ …
Here is another takeaway: if you are a journalist and you never took a basic probability and statistics class (or failed it), you have no business reporting on viruses.