Modern times have shown that understanding infectious diseases is imperative to our survival. In this study, we gain an understanding of the SIR model for novel or emerging infectious diseases by ...

Called the R-naught, or basic reproductive number, the model predicts the average number of susceptible people who will be infected by one infectious person.

Scientists used a SEIR model and a Bayesian inference framework to estimate the basic reproduction number of COVID-19 across Africa.