This is an attempt at understanding R0 (reproductive number) as more than a numbing number. View these notes as less definitive. In his (2014) paper Risking It All: Why are public health authorities not concerned about Ebola in the US?, Yaneer Bar-Yam writes about why R0 isn't an even distribution.
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This is an attempt at understanding R0 (reproductive number) as more than a numbing number. View these notes as less definitive. In his (2014) paper Risking It All: Why are public health authorities not concerned about Ebola in the US?, Yaneer Bar-Yam writes about why R0 isn't an even distribution.