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Christ its not that bad, they could have hired other posters!
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If they will recruit their science journalists at the Thistle Hotel Heathrow breakfast buffet...Originally posted by AtW View Post“ It is an approximation of the change in the number of infections each day, and the size of the growth rate indicates the speed of change. It takes into account various data sources, including government-run Covid-19 surveillance testing schemes.
For example, a growth rate of 5 per cent is faster than a growth rate of 1 per cent, while a disease with a growth rate of minus 4 per cent will be shrinking faster than a disease with growth rate of minus 1 per cent.
R estimates - which are at least three weeks behind - do not indicate how quickly an epidemic is changing and different diseases with the same R can result in epidemics that grow at very different speeds. ”
Coronavirus UK: 57 new fatalities as R-rate stays below 1 | Daily Mail Online
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Daily Mail explains
“ It is an approximation of the change in the number of infections each day, and the size of the growth rate indicates the speed of change. It takes into account various data sources, including government-run Covid-19 surveillance testing schemes.
For example, a growth rate of 5 per cent is faster than a growth rate of 1 per cent, while a disease with a growth rate of minus 4 per cent will be shrinking faster than a disease with growth rate of minus 1 per cent.
R estimates - which are at least three weeks behind - do not indicate how quickly an epidemic is changing and different diseases with the same R can result in epidemics that grow at very different speeds. ”
Coronavirus UK: 57 new fatalities as R-rate stays below 1 | Daily Mail Online
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