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@dabigv13: you are right, I wrote higher when I meant to write lower.

@oldalum: you are on the right track.  R(E) is the effective R.  Whereas R0 is the "natural" transmissibility of a virus, R(E) (also sometimes referred to as R(t)) is the transmissibility of a virus over different times and geographies, as transmissibility is partly a characteristic of a virus and partly a characteristic of the society in which it is spreading at the time of spread.

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@dabigv13: you are right, I wrote higher when I meant to write lower.

@oldalum: you are on the right track.  R(E) is the effective R.  Whereas R0 is the "natural" transmissibility of a virus, R(E) (also sometimes referred to as R(t)) is the transmissibility of a virus over different times and geographies, as transmissibility is partly a characteristic of a virus and partly a characteristic of the society in which it is spreading at the time of spread.

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