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Re:Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, C... by irq11 on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:48PM (#22902834)
Except that a huge portion of those deaths are in places that may have already reached herd immunity, if the ratio of comfirmed / actual cases is as small as this study suggests.

NYC, for example, has 123k confirmed cases. Multiply by 50, and you have 6.1M, which is close to 70% of the total population.

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Re:Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, C... by JamesBarney on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:40PM (#22903239)
Where are you getting the assumption that only 1 in 50 infected are confirmed? That seems like an especially low confirmed case to infection ratio.
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Re:Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, C... by irq11 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:18PM (#22909810)
Directly from the article. It’s the lower-bound estimate for confirmed to infected found by the study.

You should read it before commenting.

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