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This article on hacker news a couple of days ago could explain a lot of this. There is a possibility that a very large number of the asymptomatic positive tests
by andrewseanryan 7y ago
This article on hacker news a couple of days ago could explain a lot of this. There is a possibility that a very large number of the asymptomatic positive tests are in fact false-positives. This could be good news for the world, but I'm not betting on that yet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832.
- postalrat 7y agoWouldn't it be great news if so many are asymptomatic or mild? It might explain why China seems to have so few current cases given its population. Maybe many people have already caught it and now have some form of immunity.
- andrewseanryan 7y agoI suppose you have a point there. I was thinking that it could be bad that so many are spreading without knowing it. Also, if many are asymptomatic, and the test is creating a large number of false-positives for those that are asymptomatic, there is a chance that this crisis is not as big as we think it is. Let's hope...