(noun) the reproduction number of an infectious disease, or the number of people to whom each infected person typically spreads the virus while infectious
Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around and people become overnight experts in the sport of curling, dropping the newly acquired jargon into our small talk.
This year the same thing has happened with epidemiology. No casual catch up is complete without a brief discussion (or heated argument) about excess deaths, false positives, case fatality rates and, of course, the R number.
您已閱讀24%（544字），剩餘76%（1682字）包含更多重要資訊，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，並享受更多專屬服務。