California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulative total passes 20k

Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by anonymousiam on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:13PM (#23618779)

How many are symptomatic?

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by kpennell on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:32PM (#23621215)

In some Italian villages that tested extensively, they found 50-70% asymptomatic

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by buhhh on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:34PM (#23619101)

asymptomatic =/= free of harm caused by the virus

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by jiveturkey on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:46PM (#23620758)

The question was 'symptomatic'.

Lest you think it's a typo, the number of symptomatic tests is a critical number to know.

It's not about whether the individuals beings tested have been harmed, it's about whether testing shows us the infection rate in the population or not. If 100% of tests were of symptomatic patients, the numbers tell us almost nothing.

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by matz1 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:41PM (#23620696)

ok then how many are positive but free or minimal of harm caused by the virus ?

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