17:16, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Updated: 17:41, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Britain was now past the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in the UK. He said: “At no stage has our NHS ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up myriad questions, including how contagious the coronavirus which causes the disease is. One common way of expressing this is what experts who study the spread of ...

The thing about the coronavirus is it’s hard pin down. Best practices for avoiding it are constantly changing. There’s no consistency to its recovery time. And worst of all, due to the prevalence of ...

“R0” or “R naught” is defined as “reproduction number” and indicates the average number of people who will contract a contagious disease from a single person. “R0” is an important factor to be taken ...

‘R-naught’ represents the number of new infections estimated to stem from a single case. You may be hearing a lot about this. By Max Fisher World leaders and public health experts are poised to spend ...

We published an article earlier this month that contained incorrect estimates for the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2. We have now corrected the error, but I ...