Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies

Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by leereeves on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:58PM (#22963497)

Are you describing the actual study or the study as you're imagining it? Because I imagine the statisticians have thought of these concerns and attempted to correct for them.

I find it interesting that this study corresponds to an IFR around 0.5%, similar to the IFR arrived at by other studies using very different methods. Perhaps the statisticians who conduct these studies actually know what they're doing better than Hacker News commenters.

And perhaps it's time to accept the politically inconvenient scientific truth these studies are revealing.

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Re:Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents hav... by twomoretime on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:49AM (#22965056)

>similar to the IFR arrived at by other studies using very different methods

With the wild range of IFR from so many studies, you could trivially cherry pick supporting studies for a bunch of different numbers, especially if you throw in am error range.

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