Thank you for the dose of empiricism. However, I see that the abstract says they found “little geographic variation in transmissibility” and do not draw any specific conclusions about heterogeneity in individuals (which obviously must exist to some extent).
They suggest that the R0 of the pandemic flu increased from one wave to the next, but there’s considerable overlap in their confidence intervals so it’s not totally clear that’s what happened. Their waves are also a full year each, so some loss of immunity seems plausible. I wonder, too, if heterogeneity among individuals is more extreme when most people are taking precautions (as they are now).
Thank you for the dose of empiricism. However, I see that the abstract says they found “little geographic variation in transmissibility” and do not draw any specific conclusions about heterogeneity in individuals (which obviously must exist to some extent).
They suggest that the R0 of the pandemic flu increased from one wave to the next, but there’s considerable overlap in their confidence intervals so it’s not totally clear that’s what happened. Their waves are also a full year each, so some loss of immunity seems plausible. I wonder, too, if heterogeneity among individuals is more extreme when most people are taking precautions (as they are now).