Connecting omicron and your previous post on R0, is it possible that a significant reason for the increase in effective infectiousness for omicron is that the people with higher individual R0 are now back in the susceptible population due to the significant immune erosion?
I think the default assumption is that everyone is back in the pool of potential infections, which is yet one more reason to think that it will get out of hand quickly at first.
Connecting omicron and your previous post on R0, is it possible that a significant reason for the increase in effective infectiousness for omicron is that the people with higher individual R0 are now back in the susceptible population due to the significant immune erosion?
I think the default assumption is that everyone is back in the pool of potential infections, which is yet one more reason to think that it will get out of hand quickly at first.