A guide to R - the pandemic's misunderstood metric

Nature. 2020 Jul;583(7816):346-348. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02009-w.
No abstract available

Keywords: Diseases; Epidemiology; Policy; SARS-CoV-2.

Publication types

  • News

MeSH terms

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Basic Reproduction Number / statistics & numerical data*
  • COVID-19
  • Contact Tracing / statistics & numerical data
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / immunology
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
  • Disease Susceptibility / epidemiology
  • Epidemiological Monitoring*
  • Federal Government
  • Health Policy*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Statistical
  • Pandemics / prevention & control
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / immunology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
  • Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
  • Policy Making*
  • Quarantine / statistics & numerical data
  • Uncertainty*