You are not going to look it up because you are wrong.
Disease | Reproduction number R0 |
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Ebola, 2014 | 1.51 to 2.53 |
H1N1 Influenza, 2009 | 1.46 to 1.48 |
Seasonal Influenza | 0.9 to 2.1 |
Measles | 12 to 18 |
MERS | around 1 |
Polio | 5 to 7 |
SARS | <1 to 2.75 |
Smallpox | 5 to 7 |
SARS-CoV-2 (causes COVID-19) | 1.5 to 3.5 |
R0 is the number of cases, on average, an infected person will cause during their infectious period. Michigan Public Health professor of Epidemiology, Joe Eisenberg, explains how scientists quantify the intensity of outbreaks like the coronavirus.
sph.umich.edu
This was really early data for COVID, February 2020 data. Tracking COVID for the first year. Real world data barely saw COVID break 2.0 in uncontrolled initial spread. New York City saw a R0 of 2.28 but average world wide was a R0 of 1.5.
So, both COVID and the seasonal flu are about the same. With an average R0 of 1.5.