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Without improvements to New Zealand’s ‘makeshift’ border quarantine system the risk of further community cases of COVID-19 variants remains high.
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A variant with a higher transmission rate is much more dangerous than one with just a higher fatality rate.
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A virus that is 30% more transmissible is more deadly than a virus that is 30% more deadly. Counter-intuitive but true.
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New variants will push the number needed to reach herd immunity up.
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Even if some places reach herd immunity, the virus is unlikely to disappear.
Crash course.
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How the lessons learned from the global financial crisis can transform our view of COVID risk.
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The latest REACT study provides some reassurance, but there is significant uncertainty in the numbers.
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We’ll achieve herd immunity when 60% of the population is immune to COVID. No, wait, make it 70%. Or is it 80%?
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The R number fluctuates more as case numbers fall.
A quarantine has been imposed in Verl, Gütersloh, north-west Germany, as part of a local lockdown.
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Germany’s resurgent R number is largely down to a localised outbreak.
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K is all about the super-spreaders.