They have not done any widespread antibody tests in the US yet. They are working to get reliable tests that can be scaled. I think they said maybe another week or so.
My dad had a refractory pneumonia with ground glass appearance in December/January. In hospital for 6 weeks. Ventilated for part of it. His doc said all the docs had a persistent cough for 8 weeks. 🤔
there have only been very localized random test studies so far (as far as I know) for antibodies/indicators of prior infection
a couple neighborhoods had 25-35% range
edit: so the results that have been leaking out may be fake because they aren't confirmed, but people purporting to be working on these studies have been "leaking" small batch results for a couple days and mentioned neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Brooklyn having massive positives
the California one left the expert perplexed and made him/her wonder if we haven't had a milder strain running rampant for almost 6 months
edit edit: here's a link that mentions the study in progress in big cities
They have not done any widespread antibody tests in the US yet. They are working to get reliable tests that can be scaled. I think they said maybe another week or so.
My dad had a refractory pneumonia with ground glass appearance in December/January. In hospital for 6 weeks. Ventilated for part of it. His doc said all the docs had a persistent cough for 8 weeks. 🤔
I think wuflu has already been through the US and was just considered flu or pneumonia until testing and panic started.
One study in a city in Germany had 15% infected population vs high estimate of 5%.
Effectively 3x LOWER mortality.
One in Oregon showed 13% as I recall.
Press conference a couple days ago they said, “soon” and hinted at beginning of May.
there have only been very localized random test studies so far (as far as I know) for antibodies/indicators of prior infection
a couple neighborhoods had 25-35% range
edit: so the results that have been leaking out may be fake because they aren't confirmed, but people purporting to be working on these studies have been "leaking" small batch results for a couple days and mentioned neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Brooklyn having massive positives
the California one left the expert perplexed and made him/her wonder if we haven't had a milder strain running rampant for almost 6 months
edit edit: here's a link that mentions the study in progress in big cities
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/unprecedented-nationwide-blood-studies-seek-track-us-coronavirus-spread#