Recent (published today in JAMA Internal Medicine) serology surveys indicate that the actual number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the U.S. is 6-24 times larger than the reported number, as you suggest.
Who the hell could know when a kid gets killed on a motorcycle and they list cause of death Covid or like a close friend of mine who's mother fell and broke her shoulder and then while in the hospital had a bad stroke and died and when my friend got the death certificate they listed cause of death covid, and when they were questioned why she was listed Covid the doctor told him the facility receives 17.000.00 per covid death.
There will always be errors - and those who exploit the situation. The question is whether there are errors of sufficient magnitude so as to completely corrupt the overall picture.
Not everyone is fraudulent.![]()
There will always be errors - and those who exploit the situation. The question is whether there are errors of sufficient magnitude so as to completely corrupt the overall picture.
So what does, say, a 10x larger denominator do to Covid-19 infection fatality rate? Let's see, where's my slide rule when I don't need it ...Recent (published today in JAMA Internal Medicine) serology surveys indicate that the actual number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the U.S. is 6-24 times larger than the reported number, as you suggest.
I wish I was tight just now. Oh, well, easy enough to remedy ...Your tight, ...
So what does, say, a 10x larger denominator do to Covid-19 infection fatality rate? Let's see, where's my slide rule when I don't need it ...
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I find it darkly amusing that, almost consistently, those here in denial of the seriousness of the issue live in areas that in their entirety would likely represent statistically insignificant error in any statewide statistic let alone a national one.
Im waiting for it to hit south australia next those victorians keep trying to sneek in.Further to what I wrote above...
Apparently 600 people in Canberra have had to go into "self-isolation" for 14 days. They or someone they are physically close to (like live with) went to a club at a beach town about 60 miles from here (in NSW) last weekend. That club (basically a restaurant with bars and pokie machines) had someone there who has tested positive from a "hot-spot" pub in Sydney - that in turn became a "hot-spot" because someone was there who came from a "hot-spot" in Melbourne last week.
Who knows how many of these 600 will ultimately test positive?
The city of Melbourne is currently in a state of lockdown and no-one from the state of Victoria can enter New South Wales (NSW) or Queensland. Probably not anywhere else either. Canberra (the Australian Capital Territory - or ACT) is an island in the middle of NSW and it will be very difficult to close its borders. So our destiny here is very much tied to that of NSW.
Quite a few people here are not taking this very seriously. There is a lot of complacency out there.
Great stuff!
Im waiting for it to hit south australia next those victorians keep trying to sneek in.
My wife works as a nurse in the flinders ranges area and last week a couple snuck over the border somehow and came to the hostpital my wife works at to get tested for covid .
What were they thinking I dont know but thats a long drive to go to the doctors a good 10hrs they ended up gettin stung by police trying to go back over the border.
cheers Trev.
I wish I was tight just now. Oh, well, easy enough to remedy ...
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