infection rate
Disease transmission frequency
Infection rate measures how quickly a disease spreads through a population, typically expressed as the number of new cases per unit of time or per number of people at risk.
Epidemiologists track infection rates to assess outbreak severity and guide public health responses: The infection rate spiked after the holiday gatherings.
Also called incidence rate in technical contexts.
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- spreadTo distribute widely
- community spreadDisease circulating locally, source unknown
- going viralSpreading rapidly online
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
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- epidemic controlquarantine zone, quarantine station, disease outbreak, outbreak, epidemic
- health statisticsprevalence, life expectancy, infant mortality, health indicators, vital statistics
infection raterecovery rate
Measure of healing speed
cure rate · survival rate · vaccination rate · disease control · herd immunity
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