This new COVID variant has an R value of 18.5.❗
(In laymans terms, that means it is insanely contagious.)
Stay vigilant, my friends. 😷
@kel How confident are they of this value. A report I saw earlier was just a rough estimate and some of the assumptions looked questionable.
@ibid Not very. This is based on early numbers. Lots of disagreement about it among scientists, but it's almost certainly the most contagious yet.