 COVID-19 can be eliminated if the community-to-community reproductive number---i.e. the expected/ average number of other communities to which a single infected community will transmit the virus---is reduced to less than one.
<meaning-changed>  COVID-19 can be eliminated if the community-to-community reproductive number---i.e. the expected/ average number of other communities to which a single infected community will transmit the virus---is reduced to less than one.
 COVID-19 can be eliminated if the region-to-region reproductive number---i.e. the expected/ average number of other communities to which a single infected community will transmit the virus---is reduced to less than one.