Dr. Rishi Desai is a pediatric infectious disease physician and former epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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thank youuuuu, 9 years later and this still helps people like me.
Awesome vdo🌊
This is well explained. Thank you for great insight, it give me the insighrs how the spread of disease calculated and measures taken according.
Keep inform the world!
Where is the name of “r naught” come from? Is it designed exclusively to measure the spread of disease or it’s a common function can be applied to somewhere else?
R0 18 is not a ridiculous number. It is the actual R0 for measles 🙂
Thanks for the video!
You didn't state covid rnot number
After all this laborious explanation and calculation, you STILL HAVE NOT answered the basic question about R-naught: WHAT DOES THE NAUGHT MEAN??? Why is it not simply called "R"?? What does the addition of the subscript "naught" signify? Without that explanation, this entire video is basically incomplete and inadequate.
Seeking good poster illistrating this concept.
3:26 laughs and cries in covid-19
Quick Question Dr. Desai: It seems that the "time period" really matters when it comes to any calculation of R0. Is that time period well defined? Like the time a person stays infected or something like that.. a fixed number for a given disease? Because an R0 = 2 when the time was measured weekly, is the same as an R0 of 2^(1/7) when time is measured daily. So unless the "period of time" has a strict definition, we cannot talk about an R0 without mentioning what time period we're talking about. Am I correct in my understanding?
Nought is not pronounced "not" in the entire English-speaking world outside the states.🇬🇧
Views shot unexpectedly after Covid19.
I need glasses to see what u write😥
Coronavirus anyone?
D=Corona
Dr Rishi, if you look at any common respiratory virus, it is incredibly obvious that R, if it is to have meaning, must be affected by outdoor temperature. Many studies have shown this – Lidwell J. Hyg., Camb. (1965), 63, 427 was an early and good one. Does it make sense to use a model that doesn't include temperature? And is there any other way to explain seasonality? (I say no!) See eg pic of colds in the Netherlands 1925-26 plotted alongside outdoor temp: @t
The movie contagion brought me here!!
Covid19 in 2020 brought me here
Anyone else remembering the movie Contagion and here during coronavirus scare?
Corona brought me here
Coverd19 or SARSCov2 leads me here
So is it basically the reproduction number of any given virus?
2019 Wuhan pneumonia brings me here
The R=naught value can change if it mutates (ex: becomes airborne) 5:12
#coronavirus2020
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For perpetuating you are educated, it's actually "r naught" not "nought". At least your pronunciation is right. Naught meaning zero, nothing, non-existent.
this has the same value of a full PhDin Epidemiology, thank you
Thanks. Such an easily understood explanation