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No, their thesis is "There is almost certainly community spreading in the US that is going undetected," which is based on observations that the US is doing less
by DangitBobby 7y ago
No, their thesis is "There is almost certainly community spreading in the US that is going undetected," which is based on observations that the US is doing less testing despite having much greater populations and higher incidence of risk factors. Do you contest that statement and its supporting arguments?
- maxerickson 7y agoThey don't detect the disease by going around testing people at random, they test suspected cases (typically people sick enough to make contact with the health system, with symptoms of the thing being tested for). For testing capacity to matter, there would need to be known clusters of suspected cases...if you have known clusters of an unknown disease, "undetected spreading" isn't exactly the situation you are in. I apologize about the rhetorical framing of my other comment, I wasn't trying to put words in their mouth, I was pointing out a predicate that they did not address.