Dr. Scott Gottlieb estimates as many as 1 in 150 people in U.S. are infected with coronavirus

[Mike 03]

CNBC
PUBLISHED FRI, JUL 10 2020
9:25 AM EDT UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Kevin Stankiewicz

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday he believes there continues to be a significant number of unreported coronavirus cases in the U.S., suggesting as many as 1 in 150 people in the country could be infected.

“We must have well over 700,000 infections a day, even though we’re only diagnosing about 60,000,” Gottlieb said on “Squawk Box.” “Before, when we had come down, and we were sort of burning around 20,000 diagnosed infections a day, the conventional wisdom was the prevalence was 1 in 200 people. Now, it must be higher than that.”

Gottlieb’s comments come as the U.S. continues to report record, or near record, levels of daily new infections. While the increase can be partly attributed to added testing capacity, the overall rate of positive tests in the country also is increasing. That is an indication of growing community spread.

“It’s going to be hard to get to a point where you could — you’re not going to eliminate the infection — but get it down to levels that are much, much lower,” said the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. “The prevalence of actual infection in the country right now must be pretty high.”

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Horrific.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. So we are at

or near Critical Mass in numbers. Which means this Pandemic will gain speed and as the Virus Mutates,it appears to be more lethal.

[LeftInTX]

3. Hmmm??

We have already surpassed that number in confirmed cases....

We are shortly heading to 1% of the population.
We're at .927% of the population already.

1 in 150 is .666% of the population.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Beat Me To It!

It's around 1 in 110 that we already know.
Wonder if this was supposed to be 1 in 15.
That would square with the 700,000 number in the OP.

[Brainfodder]

5. Same math as you, holds up!

Too high a guestimate on daily infections, when 3x that number is the actual # of infections if it was his 1 in 150?

Send the Dr. back for remedial arithmetic?

[Goodheart]

6. Saw that immediately, so knew somebody would point it out.