Study: lockdown has made Covid less contagious than common flu

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Apr 1, 2020
8:52:48am

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Study: lockdown has made Covid less contagious than common flu

UK lockdown 'has made coronavirus less contagious than seasonal flu'

New study suggests estimates that each positive case would infect 2.6 other people may now have dropped to just 0.62

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/01/uk-lockdown-has-made-coronavirus-less-contagious-seasonal-flu/

How they can know that after barely a week of lockdown is beyond my comprehension, but makes perfect sense.

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Study: lockdown has made Covid less contagious than common flu

Plato

4/1/20 8:52am

the common flu is going to be less contagious than the common flu this year

The Shazad

4/1/20 8:55am

I think I commented on this before, but our county saw a massive spike in flu

BYUheaven

4/1/20 9:00am

But wouldn't lockdown also reduce spread of common flu as well?

astroman

4/1/20 8:57am

These graphs aren’t changing. Pretty discouraging

OU Cougar

4/1/20 8:59am

yes, they are, look at the log scale

Plato

4/1/20 9:04am

But China is still at 80k! SMH...

diluigifan

4/1/20 9:06am

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