In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by AJ007 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:49PM (#22982327)

8,399,000 people in NYC, 21 percent of that is 1,763,790. 1% of that is 17,000.

So far as of Saturday at 6:49pm EST 16,919 have officially died in NYC.

I think the anti-body test in this case is fairly close and the death rate is probably 1% more or less depending on the demographic distribution. Obviously there are a number of people in NYC who will die over the next month even if all new infections where halted right now.

The serology tests are just wrong when only a small number of people in the sample were infected, which is what we’ve seen from the stuff in CA so far.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by CydeWeys on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:57PM (#22982374)

You're using the death count for the entire state, not just NYC. The blood antibody test positive % for the overall state is 13, not 21. And the population is around 19.5 million.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by cozzyd on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:05AM (#22984931)

The NYC DPH reports both a confirmed and probable death count. The sum of those, as of Saturday, is 16270

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by briandear on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:48PM (#22983152)

People are going to use whatever version of the facts supports their bias.

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