I’ve been trying to understand this discussion (and I agree that this is one of the central questions for the model of how things will progress from here, in particular if March-style lockdowns will be sufficient or not to halt the spread of this strain). But now I’m mainly confused—isn’t such a dramatic increase in Rt incompatible with the slower increase in the graph, as pointed out by CellBioGuy?
Edit: I’ve read yesterday’s PHE investigation report, and they do explicitly confirm it is an increase of over +0.5 to the Rt under the conditions in England in weeks 44-49 of this year. So this seems like the bad possible interpretation, where it really does spread significantly more.
I’ve been trying to understand this discussion (and I agree that this is one of the central questions for the model of how things will progress from here, in particular if March-style lockdowns will be sufficient or not to halt the spread of this strain). But now I’m mainly confused—isn’t such a dramatic increase in Rt incompatible with the slower increase in the graph, as pointed out by CellBioGuy?
Edit: I’ve read yesterday’s PHE investigation report, and they do explicitly confirm it is an increase of over +0.5 to the Rt under the conditions in England in weeks 44-49 of this year. So this seems like the bad possible interpretation, where it really does spread significantly more.