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Re:New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificit... by bkanber on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:10AM (#23150763)
I don't know the absolute figures in terms of cases per year, but the four common coronaviruses are... common. From [1], we see that 1 in 200 flu-like infections was the coronavirus HKU1. This [2] paper corroborates and gives figures for the other three common viruses.

We can therefore assume that about 1 in 25 bad-cold or flu-like illnesses are caused by a coronavirus.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466428/

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