Dan, both you and Elizabeth make good points here that I hadn’t given enough consideration to (I wish I could tag both of you in a comment somehow, but I’m not sure if that’s possible).
Yes, it is dependent on the population/community but also there’s several different ways to calculate it making it hard to compare not just between diseases but also between R0 calculations for given diseases… So… yeah that makes a straight-forward objective ranking of contagiousness a much more difficult task I suspected from the table in the article… it also makes talking about contagiousness objectively somewhat more difficult than I hoped.
Dan, both you and Elizabeth make good points here that I hadn’t given enough consideration to (I wish I could tag both of you in a comment somehow, but I’m not sure if that’s possible).
Yes, it is dependent on the population/community but also there’s several different ways to calculate it making it hard to compare not just between diseases but also between R0 calculations for given diseases… So… yeah that makes a straight-forward objective ranking of contagiousness a much more difficult task I suspected from the table in the article… it also makes talking about contagiousness objectively somewhat more difficult than I hoped.