The key statistic that determines your odds of getting coronavirus

The key statistic that determines your odds of getting coronavirus

March 2, 2020 4:28 pm EST.

Jeff Rosenthal, a statistics professor at the University of Toronto, explains how the basic reproduction number of coronavirus will determine the path of the illness.

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