Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice
Professor Philip Nolan:
The strategy is to keep the reproduction number as low as possible, so that is number one. Second, when case numbers are very low, it is very hard to estimate what the reproduction number is. As soon as it is above 1, we are encountering difficulty and the further it is above 1, the bigger the problem. I am not stretching out the time here. What really matters is the product of the number of cases and the reproduction number.
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