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Not everybody gets coronavirus either. The Diamond Princess cruise ship is pretty close to a worst case scenario, and even there "only" ~700 of 3700+ (20%) hav

• bcrosby95 7y ago
  Note that this number might be kinda deceptive both ways. Because they were forced to stay on the ship abnormally long under quarantine. There's a paper that estimates that if they were allowed to leave the ship right away (on Feb 3rd) 2% would have been infected, and if they were not taking special measures (isolation, etc) but on the ship for a similar amount of time (until Feb 19) that 80% of the passengers would have been infected: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jtm/taaa030/5766334?searchresult=1 https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jtm...
• Reelin 7y ago
  It's true, you might be exposed and not get infected. But given the relatively high rate of infection coupled with lack of natural immunity, you should probably assume that you will become infected once it becomes widespread in your community. But seriously, most cases are mild - and that's just the reported ones, which will almost inevitably skew to more serious symptoms. Technical question: I'm not super familiar with this virus, for how long will you still test positive after you've recovered? And could that be impacting the statistics from the cruise ship?