Global fears over a potential second wave of novel coronavirus infections are on the rise -- and there’s one phrase being thrown around -- the "reproduction rate", but what exactly does that mean? The ...
Ireland has seen a steady decrease in COVID-19 infections stall in recent days and the "reproduction rate" that measures the number of people infected by each positive case has increased, a senior ...
(Reuters) – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The reproduction number (R) of the coronavirus in Germany has risen sharply, the country's center for disease control has said, after an outbreak at a meat processing plant infected hundreds of ...
The number of people in Ireland infected by someone who has COVID-19 fell to close to 1.0 from 1.3 to 1.4 a week ago, the head of Ireland's COVID-19 modeling group said on Friday, as admissions to ...
The reproduction number 𝑅 is a key indicator used to monitor the dynamics of Covid-19 and to assess the effects of infection control strategies that frequently have high social and economic costs.