R value: what is the r value? What does r mean?

R value: what is the r value? What does r mean?


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However, this can vary considerably from patient to patient. A person who gets sick might stay inside for the next week, or they might continue life as normal: going to work, the shops,


socialising with friends and going on holidays. The UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said in tonight’s press conference that once the R0 is absolutely certain to be below


one, the country could consider which lockdown measures to ease. He said: "Sage looked very carefully at all of the evidence and is of the opinion that it is highly likely that the R is


below one - the transmission force of the virus is below one, meaning that one person will, on average, be infecting fewer than one other person.