Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus

Re:Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coro... by seppel on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#22657800)

> Berlin for instance tested over 20.000 people last week alone.

20000 per week seems to be an absurdly low number to me.

> Less than 3% results were positive.

Given high number of VIPs that are already infected (members of the parliament, professional soccer, actors), I suspect that 0.5% to 1% of the population is already infected.

Edit to add numbers: The German parliament of size 709 had 4 member already infected last weekend. On March 19 we were at 6.

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Re:Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coro... by perl4ever on Sunday March 22, 2020 @10:22PM (#22660705)

If 3% test positive and 0.5% are infected, then most of the positives are false, right?

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Re:Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coro... by seppel on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:13AM (#22663249)

But they test only 20000 per week(!).

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