Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford University is also randomly sampling LA County people to see if they had the disease. It will be interesting to see how their results compare. He completed testing in Santa Clara County (San Fran Bay Area to the north), completed the data analysis and reported his results (which were in a FR post).
In this “Unknown Knowledge” interview he discusses the LA County Testing. His field sampling and data analysis were completed when he gave this interview and he was writing the report. Maybe the testing in this article is his work as he said he had a partner org in LA doing the field work.
The Fight against COVID-19: An Update from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, interview with Jay Bhattacharya, Friday, April 17, 2020.
The Stanford study is
very shaky. Many of the test subjects showed up just to get the testing, fearing that they were symptomatic and had the virus but having no other way to get tested. This destroyed the randomness of the testing.
Hopefully, we can get a truly random test showing this kind of result.