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One recent report: Two hospitals in NYC did universal screening of 215 pregnant women admitted for delivery between March 22 and April 4th. 15.4% tested positiv
by therealcamino 7y ago
One recent report: Two hospitals in NYC did universal screening of 215 pregnant women admitted for delivery between March 22 and April 4th. 15.4% tested positive. Most of those testing positive (87.9%) had no symptoms at the time they were admitted.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316
- yread 7y agoPregnant women go to hospitals for the antenatal appointments a lot though. And hospitals are full of the virus. You would expect pregnant women to be more likely to be infected than general population
- therealcamino 7y agoWithout other data I'm not sure I find that convincing. In the US, a lot of obstetrical care takes place at offices away from hospitals.
- mlyle 7y agoLess so in NYC, but I agree. In any case, I think the interesting things are: A) the share of infected people who will never have symptoms, and B) the share of infected people that have minor symptoms and will not be diagnosed. There's reason to believe that both A and B are significant. If they reach 90%-- which there's reason to believe they likely do-- it means that with a 1.5% cumulative case count you have more like 15% of the population having been exposed.