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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by mynegation on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:17PM (#22983351)
Do not know if it is in the article or not but I guess the reasoning from GP goes like this: huge percentage of people are pre-symptomatic. The median time for symptoms to appear is 4-5 days from infection time, so they were probably infected in a very short period of time recently.
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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by darkerside on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:57PM (#22983597)
You're probably right, but I think that's flawed. We still don't know how many people are completely asymptomatic. It's a very weak assumption to base this argument on.
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