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Things that keep people calm.
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What we need to determine is this:
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For every person who gets sick...
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...how many other people are they likely to infect?
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So for seasonal flu, that's usually about one.
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Smallpox, on the other hand, it's over three.
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Now, before we had a vaccine...
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...polio spread at a rate between four and six.
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Now, we call that number...
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...the R-nought.
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R stands for the reproductive rate of the virus.
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Any ideas what that might be for this?