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Strategies that can be used to fight Covid-19; their merits and demerits

Epidemiologists measure how a disease spreads through a population using the “basic reproduction number,” otherwise known as R0. Typical seasonal flu has an R0 of 1.2, while that of Covid-19 is reported to be approximately 2.5.

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