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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by zyxzevn on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:31PM (#22963313)
Good news. Herd-immunity is growing.

Also, this means that the death-rate is far lower than reported. And this is nice too. Maybe we can save people by starting the society again.

In other news, we see that hydroxychloroquine is actually working according to doctors. But there was a very bad study that claimed that it caused 2x as many deaths. It should have said instead that it was mainly used on patients that were close to death. Here is a good analysis of that study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLSYRqcg0wo&feature=youtu.be... Bad studies like this wide published one show that science is not immune to political agendas.

Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by mantap on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:10PM (#22964251)
The presence of antibodies is not sufficient for herd immunity. For herd immunity you need those antibodies to stick around.
Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by baconforce on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:48PM (#22963431)
This video states that a randomized controlled study needs to be conducted, otherwise nobody can claim that hydroxychloroquine works or does not work.