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 ...

Freya Shearer receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Government Departments of Health and Foreign Affairs and Trade, and NSW Health. Catherine Bennett ...

The end of the coronavirus pandemic will most likely be tied to the development of a vaccine — a process that could take about 18 months. But countries under lockdown could resume normal activities ...

Two ongoing outbreaks have dominated headlines in the past few months. Since the beginning of the year, measles has sickened at least 940 people in 26 U.S. states as of May 24. In Congo, Ebola has ...

This article was last updated on 13 October 2021. The basic reproduction number, also known as the R or R0, is the average number of people one person with an infectious disease will likely infect in ...

Scientists say there is no evidence that the BA.5 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than measles, or that it has a basic reproduction number, or "R-naught" (R0), of 18.6 ...

Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, UK, have recently proposed and applied a correction to EpiEstim, a statistical method to estimate the time-dependent ...