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We get "real data" by properly testing, not necessarily by testing more people.
Currently we are mainly testing people arriving with symptoms.
This results in underestimate of the number of infected and an overestimate of mortality and morbidity rates.
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We get "real data" by properly testing, not necessarily by testing more people.
Currently we are mainly testing people arriving with symptoms.
This results in underestimate of the number of infected and an overestimate of mortality and morbidity rates.