Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, #Rt
▻https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.18.20134858v1.full.pdf
The effective reproduction number, denoted Re or Rt, is the expected number of new infections caused by an infectious individual in a population where some individuals may no longer be susceptible . Estimates of Rt are used to assess how changes in policy, population immunity, and other factors have affected transmission.
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