The increasingly sporadic updates on the virus's R number will cease from 6 January, with it deemed 'no longer necessary' thanks to vaccines and therapeutics
After almost three years, the UK Health Security Agency will stop publishing COVID modelling data next month.
The increasingly sporadic updates on the virus's R number will cease from 6 January, with it deemed"no longer necessary" thanks to vaccines and therapeutics. COVID's reproductive rate, which referred to the number of people an infected person will pass the disease on to, debuted back in May 2020 and was published weekly during the peak of the pandemic.
An R value of 1 means that on average every person who is infected will infect 1 other person, meaning the total number of infections is stable. If R is greater than 1 the epidemic is growing, if R is less than 1 the epidemic is shrinking. If R is 2, on average, each infected person infects 2 more people. An R of 1.1 meants for every ten people, there will be 11 infections.The higher R is above 1, the more people 1 infected person infects and so the faster the epidemic grows.
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