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How many of you feel like you’ve been slowly working your way toward a degree in epidemiology over the past nine months?
It’s not like any of us signed up for the course work. And if we could, we’d all love to drop it. But when your life is suddenly upended by a pandemic with an endless appetite for lives, you start learning as you go.
I’d never heard of R naught until the spring. I’m positive I knew nothing about rolling five-day positivity rates. Aerosols weren’t something I feared. My knowledge of lag time between infections and deaths as an indicator of pandemic progression clearly lagged.