indicator of the transmissibility of an infectious disease during the early stages of its spread and detection.
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- If <em>R<sub>0</sub></em> < 1, then the disease will eventually die out. On the other hand, if
+ If <em>R<sub>0</sub></em> < 1, the disease will eventually die out. On the other hand, if
<em>R<sub>0</sub></em> > 1, the disease will spread (the higher the <em>R<sub>0</sub></em>, the faster this will happen). Due to uncertainty of known data about the disease, it is difficult to
determine <em>R<sub>0</sub></em> precisely.
Therefore, many estimation methods exist, each based on different assumptions and yielding different estimates. It is the