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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by alkonaut on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:51PM (#22982334)
A crude mathematical model from Swedish authorities on the Stockholm outbreak used two parameters: 1: the fraction of undetected cases (assumed to be mild or asymptomatic) and 2: the relative infectiousness of that group compared to the “detected” group.

The larger the undetected group is, the lower their relative infectiousness has to be in order to fit the observations. The best fit I believe was 1/25 detected and 11% infectiousness of the undetected group.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by jacobush on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:03PM (#22982433)
For the particular conditions in Stockholm, such as testing prevalence etc
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by alkonaut on Sunday April 26, 2020 @06:02AM (#22985990)
Yes absolutely. The actual parameters would be different everywhere but they seem to indicate that the symptomatic group is more infectious (which I guess is the base hypothesis for a droplet transmitted disease).
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