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Re: US virus deaths may top 80,000 despite confinement: study |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Mar 26 20:34:13 2020, in response to Re: US virus deaths may top 80,000 despite confinement: study, posted by AlM on Thu Mar 26 19:36:31 2020. one little item of good news is that over 100,000 tests were done yesterday, and over 500K cumulatively.I would inquire about the type of tests that were given in the 500K and 100K figures. There are 84K confirmed cases in the US as of this writing. The "confirmed" means each case was confirmed by a specific corona virus test. Given the restrictions on testing, that would indicate an positive rate of 17%. That's way too low. Perhaps, the "tests" are referring to some ad hoc "surveillance tests" mentioned near the end of the linked article. |
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