As an outbreak of disease spreads in a relatively isolated community, some contract tracing occurs, and likely transmission events identified. Contract tracing determines that a sample of 10 infected individuals caused the following number of secondary cases: (look at the attached image) -Calculate the average number of secondary cases and create a ‘who acquires infection from whom

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As an outbreak of disease spreads in a relatively isolated community, some contract tracing occurs, and likely transmission events identified. Contract tracing determines that a sample of 10 infected individuals caused the following number of secondary cases: (look at the attached image)

-Calculate the average number of secondary cases and create a ‘who acquires infection from whom’ matrix of R0 numbers. Use this matrix to calculate the overall R0 number for the population.



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