Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo...
by ummonk on Friday April 17, 2020 @01:38PM
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0.2% of nyc has already died from Covid-19. That will probably get to around 0.4% or so. This is a lower bound for lethality of the disease.
We also know from contact tracing and mass testing instances that only something like half of cases stay asymptomatic forever. It is likely that the people in this study are either asymptomatic because they no longer have the disease or because they haven’t developed symptoms yet. Also, they might just not be recognizing their symptoms. Even without covid-19, way more than 7.5% of homeless people are typically coughing.
We also know from contact tracing and mass testing instances that only something like half of cases stay asymptomatic forever. It is likely that the people in this study are either asymptomatic because they no longer have the disease or because they haven’t developed symptoms yet. Also, they might just not be recognizing their symptoms. Even without covid-19, way more than 7.5% of homeless people are typically coughing.