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Kevin Systrom

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There& #39;s one metric that can help us through the next few months. For your Sunday reading, here& #39;s what it is, how to calculate it, and what it looks like by US State http://systrom.com/blog/the-metric-we-need-to-manage-covid-19/">https://systrom.com/blog/the-...

The Metric We Need to Manage COVID-19

There's one metric that has the most promise. It's called R(t) - the effective reproduction number. We can estimate it, and it's the key to getting us through the next few months. Here's how to...

http://systrom.com/blog/the-metric-we-need-to-manage-covid-19/

For those of you that are interested in the statistics and code used to generate this, I& #39;ve made the notebook available here: https://github.com/k-sys/covid-19/blob/master/Realtime%20R0.ipynb">https://github.com/k-sys/cov...

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https://github.com/k-sys/covid-19/blob/master/Realtime%20R0.ipynb

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