If an emerging pathogen was found to have anR0 of 30, would herd immunity need to be higher orlower than for an emerging pathogen with an R0 of 3?

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If an emerging pathogen was found to have an
R0 of 30, would herd immunity need to be higher or
lower than for an emerging pathogen with an R0 of 3?

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In epidemiology, the basic reproduction is the typical number of secondary cases of an infectious disease arising from a characteristic case in a totally susceptible population and it is denoted by R0.

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