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Germany and Finland are doing this. Here are some results already completed in a German town showing that 14% of people tested positive for antibodies... https

• three_seagrass 7y ago
  That study did their research in a town that was already infected, meaning that our understanding of the infection rate for Covid-19 is probably lower than reality.
  • thombat 7y ago
    Precisely - as an early outbreak centre that town is referred to as "Germany's Wuhan", and is expected to have among the highest proportion of infected inhabitants. So actually the 15% figure came as a disappointment and something of a surprise.
    • standardUser 7y ago
      A disappointment? NYC has among the highest testing rates in the world and has only found about 1.5% of people infected. If there's another 14% in NYC that have been infected without needing medical attention, that is fantastic news.
      • thombat 7y ago
        The German town of Gangelt is the study case that the OP was referring to, which thanks to a small population and a well-attended carnival party with many infected attendees and a legion of subsequent linked cases had acquired the reputation that everyone must have been exposed, i.e. a place that would have established something like herd immunity. So to discover that only one in seven inhabitants had detectable antibodies was indeed dismaying: either the infection pattern or the immune response wasn't as expected. Or both.
      • three_seagrass 7y ago
        That still doesn't change the absolute numbers of people needing medical attention though.