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0 pointsgdfasfklshg46y ago0 comments

See my other comment. I was comparing to one of the viruses that causes a COLD not influenza.

Colds are quite different to flues.

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Of course in many ways they are different, but not in the important ones for this discussion.

I used influenza because it was convenient in terms of available research, I could grab in a minute or two, but I'm sure if you care to look you can find similar data for rhinovirus.

Rhinovirus and influenza have very comparable R0's. R0 is the epidemiological measure of the "contagion" factor of a pathogen.

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0 pointsgdfasfklshg46y ago0 comments

See my other comment. I was comparing to one of the viruses that causes a COLD not influenza.

Colds are quite different to flues.

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xdarnold6y ago

Of course in many ways they are different, but not in the important ones for this discussion.

I used influenza because it was convenient in terms of available research, I could grab in a minute or two, but I'm sure if you care to look you can find similar data for rhinovirus.

Rhinovirus and influenza have very comparable R0's. R0 is the epidemiological measure of the "contagion" factor of a pathogen.

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