I know it's the number of people one person can infect, so is it just lower because that one person comes into contact with less people? The virus itself doesn't become less infectious?
So how else does it become lower apart from people staying apart from each other? More people become immune?
Is that basically it? Physical distance or immunity?
Sometimes things get talked about so much and I just go "oh yea, the R number" when I'm not really sure I understand how it works.
Now I'm in Scotland and our R number is supposedly higher than everyone else's, I can't wrap my brain around that at all.
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I don't understand about the R number
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Noworrieshere · 11/05/2020 18:24
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