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To: gogeo
The current estimate (and that’s what we’re dealing with here) for C19 is ten infections for each diagnosed.

Any proof for your statement?

106 posted on 08/10/2020 10:46:09 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos
Any proof for your statement?

Take your pick...just type "What is the actual infection rate for Covid 19?" into a search engine.

CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported

Here's one that addresses the heart of the question:

Our study took a different approach. We looked at records of doctors visits with patients that had flu-like symptoms but not the flu. By accounting for the number of people who would only have mild symptoms of COVID-19 and would not go to the doctors, we estimate that during the last three weeks of March over 8.7 million Americans were infected with SARS-CoV-2. During the same three week period, official case counts recorded just over 100,000 new infections within the U.S.

Putting this all together, it's now clear that there have been many more infections than confirmed cases, likely by a factor of 20 or more.

Researchers have now shown that the total number of infections is likely much larger than the number of diagnosed cases.

None of this is complicated. The first question of statistics is, "What's being measured? What does the statistic mean?"

I've followed your posts, you're an intelligent guy. In this case, why the need to mislead?

149 posted on 08/11/2020 7:07:32 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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