04-18-2020, 02:35 PM
I found this interesting: Santa Clara County COVID-19 cases could be 50 to 85 times higher than reported, Stanford study finds
Santa Clara County officially had 956 confirmed cases as of April 1, and 1870 as of yesterday. Researchers, based on three thousand blood tests for antibodies, estimate that between 2.49% and 4.16% of the population had been infected, making the real count up to 85 times higher than the official one.
For context, Ontario has conducted about 50% more tests on a per capita basis than California, resulting in about the same number of confirmed cases per capita, and the first cases in each jurisdiction were within a day of one another.
From the article in the Stanford newspaper:
Santa Clara County officially had 956 confirmed cases as of April 1, and 1870 as of yesterday. Researchers, based on three thousand blood tests for antibodies, estimate that between 2.49% and 4.16% of the population had been infected, making the real count up to 85 times higher than the official one.
For context, Ontario has conducted about 50% more tests on a per capita basis than California, resulting in about the same number of confirmed cases per capita, and the first cases in each jurisdiction were within a day of one another.
From the article in the Stanford newspaper:
Quote:Medicine professor and study co-lead Jay Bhattacharya said in a Friday press conference that the study results put coronavirus’ fatality rate “about on par with the flu,” but he warned that the lack of a vaccine means the two situations aren’t equivalent.