Dataset: How Contagious are the Various COVID Variants Compared with Other Diseases

11/21/2021

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The cleanest way of comparing the pure biological spreading power of viruses is to look at their R0 (pronounced R-naught). It’s the average number of people each infected person passes a virus on to if nobody were immune and nobody took extra precautions to avoid getting infected. The more contagious, the higher R0 number!