Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you saw the 2011 movie “Contagion,” about a worldwide pandemic of a new virus, then you’ve heard the term R0. Pronounced “R ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Thursday, SFGATE will report on the most recent estimations for R0 — the base reproduction number — of the coronavirus in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Using several different models, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Germany has announced 798 new cases of the coronavirus, a drop in the number of new infections after a spike the day before. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country's agency for disease control ...