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struggle4progress

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Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:35 AM Apr 2020

Much more lethal than flu

Joel Achenbach
April 28, 2020 at 3:06 p.m. EDT

... “I think it is the worst pandemic since 1918,” said Cecile Viboud, an epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center, alluding to the “Great Influenza” pandemic that claimed an estimated 675,000 lives in the United States.

The new serological data, which is provisional, suggests that coronavirus infections greatly outnumber confirmed covid-19 cases, potentially by a factor of 10 or more. Many people experience mild symptoms or none at all, and never get the standard diagnostic test with a swab up the nose, so they’re missed in the official covid-19 case counts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/antibody-tests-support-whats-been-obvious-covid-19-is-much-more-lethal-than-flu/2020/04/28/2fc215d8-87f7-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html

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Much more lethal than flu (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2020 OP
The criteria for testing is ludicrous. It will take statisticians to figure out the real numbers. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2020 #1
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