21 Apr 2020, 2:37 pm
Three things:
Regarding the extensive damage Coronavirus will do to the human body ^
Regarding flawed statistics behind the Santa Clara study, which claims the rate of infection is extremely high. ^
Then of course, this reminder: 
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23 Apr 2020, 3:33 pm
Fireblossom wrote:
SpiceWolf wrote:
SOME COOL NEWS.
The Netherlands have just published a study.
Those clever people tested blood donations.
Officially the Netherlands has 30,000 cases of which 3,500 have died (that looks bad at about 11% death rate)
But when they tested a random sample of 10,000 blood donations.
3% of them were positive for Corona Virus.
The population of the Netherlands is 17 Million people.
So 3% is about 500,000 which results in a death rate around 0.6%
This means their were roughly 18 undetected/asymptomatic infections, for every detected infection and the virus is much less deadly than it initially appeared to be.
Wonderful news.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKCN21Y102
The Netherlands have just published a study.
Those clever people tested blood donations.
Officially the Netherlands has 30,000 cases of which 3,500 have died (that looks bad at about 11% death rate)
But when they tested a random sample of 10,000 blood donations.
3% of them were positive for Corona Virus.
The population of the Netherlands is 17 Million people.
So 3% is about 500,000 which results in a death rate around 0.6%
This means their were roughly 18 undetected/asymptomatic infections, for every detected infection and the virus is much less deadly than it initially appeared to be.
Wonderful news.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKCN21Y102
Bad news: this means that there are lots of people out there spreading the virus because they don't notice they have it.
We already knew that, so having it confirmed isn't bad news. You can't improve if you don't even understand the problem.
