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Re:New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 by makomk on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:13PM (#22628871)
I haven't been able to make heads nor tales of his logic. In Guangdong province, at the peak of the outbreak, 0.47% of people tested were positive. Guangdong province has a population of about 110 million people. If that was a representative random sample, that would mean a lot of infections, so he's clearly relying on the fact that it's a sample of people who saw a doctor because they had symptoms. Except that I don't see how you can use that to say anything about asymptomatic cases. It just doesn't make sense.
Re:New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19 by fspeech on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:20PM (#22628941)
It's 0.5% of people who were tested for the flu, not the general public.