Viruses have high rates of mutation and genetic exchanges, as well as recombination and reassortment with co-infecting viruses…
[link](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20235-8), [link](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-309…
The [K value](https://theconversation.com/is-the-k-number-the-new-r-number-what-you-need-to-know-140286) is actually what you're…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20235-8 Get educated
> For example, the effective reproductive number, Re of New Zealand’s largest cluster decreased from 7 to 0.2 within the first…
New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly effective. The effective reproductive number of…
New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly effective. The effective reproductive number of…
PCR test provides a rough fingerprint of the strain, genetic sequencing is well sequencing. ;) Both use a polymerase chain…
Despite that "hardly anyone travels there", the virus was introduced [277 separate times](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467…
Yeah, This international study is bullshit. > This data helped to quantify the effectiveness of public health interventions.
The feared difference between the UK variant and the OG. [Genomic study of NZ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20235…
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The death rate stats are interesting as it obviously will depend on what they count as a Covid death or not. I'm a bit…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20235-8. Yes and no. Here’s some science to inform you.
**Strict lockdown worked in New Zealand** New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly…
What do you mean "There's no scientific evidence that lockdowns help"? From a VERY recent nature publication: "For example, the…
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244177 So so very misinformed. https://www.nature.com/articl…
I found this, too, which is supposed to demonstrate how effective New Zealand's "lockdown" was: >https://www.nature.com/article…
[Countries led by women have not fared significantly better in the COVID-19 pandemic than those led by men](https://journals.plos…
[New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly effective. ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
[New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly effective. ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
[New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread of COVID-19 was highly effective. ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
The country is small and has much less travel than a major US city. So I wouldn't compare static values, only ratios. But even…
Read this, and realize that level 4 lockdowns can work to stop covid: [New Zealand’s nationwide ‘lockdown’ to curb the spread…
I’ve linked to the open access full-text source journal article in the post. The citation of the article is here: Genomic…
It worked for Taiwan, Vietnam, NZ. Almost worked for Australia. They are back to a very low level though after a trying time…
While I do highly suspect that the PRC is hiding its true numbers of COVID-19 cases, the PRC also had some good luck on its side.