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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by epistasis on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:08PM (#22580881)
I think some napkin math with the number of celebrities and professional sports players, who presumably have far better access to testing than the US public (which has essentially zero access), would show that we are at least at 150k-200k infections, if not more. At least, immediately before Tom Hanks announced his infection, I saw some napkin math that showed that since no politicians, movie stars, or professional athletes were positive, the rate was less than 1/2000 in the US. Now that we have multiple infections in that group, we are in the > 1/2000 == 150k infection regime.
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by CydeWeys on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:16PM (#22580922)
Does this control for the fact that celebrities and politicians do way more travel and meet way more people?
Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by epistasis on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:40AM (#22582009)
Nope! Napkin math will treat all cows as spherical. However, if they are traveling and meeting way more people, it's also likely they are spreading it far more in addition to having it at a higher rate than the more socially distant segment of the population. Also, would likely indicate vast amounts of community spread that is going completely undetected.