Community conversations by Michael Abraham
Prof. Margie Lee (Virginia Tech photo)
Coronavirus is here to stay, according to Dr. Margie Lee, a Professor at Virginia Tech’s Veterinary School, and we need to continue taking precautions like wearing masks and social distancing.
As a leading expert in microbiology, Margie knows what she’s talking about. And she’s worried that science has become politicized.
As we look down the road a few months from now, she says, “There’s only three scenarios: it gets worse, it gets better, or it stays the same.
“The same means that we continue to minimize infections by keeping people separated to prevent transmission. That’s biological fact. R0 (pronounced “are-not”) is the term we use to describe how many people each infected person can infect. If R0 is 1, then one person infects one other. Anything less than 1 means the transmission rate is decreasing. If you
