04-19-2020, 04:02 PM
(04-18-2020, 11:10 PM)Taem Wrote: I'll just leave this right here:
Quote:Blood from 3,300 volunteers living in Santa Clara was extracted from a finger prick and analyzed at the start of April. The Stanford University study, which has not been peer reviewed yet and was posted on medRxiv, found that between 2.5 percent of 4.5 percent of people tested positive for antibodies.
Extrapolated over the county's population of two million, the data predicts that between 48,000 and 82,000 people could have been infected with the virus at that time. The upper estimate is more than 80 times higher than the official case count of 1,000.
"Our findings suggest that there is somewhere between 50- and 80-fold more infections in our county than what's known by the number of cases than are reported by our department of public health," Dr. Eran Bendavid, who led the study, told ABC News.
The results also suggested that the upper limit of the coronavirus's mortality rate was only 0.2 percent, much lower than the nationwide death rate of 4.1 percent.
Sources:
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-corona...er-1498740
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/health/sa...=hvper.com
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavir...esearchers
Yes. To me this seems logical.