What is the R or Replication number. A doctor explains

Medical Doctor and surgeon, Andy Goldberg looks at the CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK (COVID 19) and predicts how it will end? He looks at the often confused Replication number (also known as R number or R0) and compares death rates with historic pandemics including Ebola, Swine Flu, SARS, Polio, and Spanish Flu and describes the development of new innovative treatments as well as vaccines and looks at the impact on society to establish how this Coronavirus Pandemic will end.
1:13 - First time we heard of the Coronavirus
2:05 - How deadly is COVID 19?
5:20 - How will the COVID 19 outbreak End?
6:16 - What about new treatments?
7:43 - What about a vaccine?
📚 GOOD RESOURCES about Coronavirus:
1) World Health Organization: www.who.int/emergencies/disea...
2) Centres for Disease Control and Prevention:
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-...
3) Johns Hopkins: Map Tracker
coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
4) Vaccine Maker Project (all about viruses/vaccines)
www.VaccineMakers.org
DISCLAIMER
** The views expressed here are the author's personal views and do not in any way express the views of any organisation he is connected to **
ERRATUM
Thank you to those that pointed out a mistake where 0.1% is 1 in 1000 and not 1 in 100, a sloppy mistake for which we are sorry. In addition, 50million deaths was not a third of the world's population at the time as the population in 1918 was about 1.5 billion so it is about 3%.
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