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		NavinF on Dec 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plans you're not supposed to talk about Hmm did he mean that it doesn’t affect transmission (as in reduce R0) or that it literally can’t prevent transmission (R0 reduced, but still >>0)? The latter is trivially true. I’m guessing he said it anyway because it was intended for a different audience.

tshaddox on Dec 14, 2021 [–]

I don’t think they literally reduce illness and death to zero, but just pretty close. I would assume they were using the same definition of “prevent” in both places in that sentence.

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