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Since there are no wide scale antibody testing in most of the US due to lack of coordination/faulty health system perhaps we can look at closed systems to ascer
by subsubzero 6y ago
Since there are no wide scale antibody testing in most of the US due to lack of coordination/faulty health system perhaps we can look at closed systems to ascertain the true death rate. Looking at Lompac prison it appears that 70% of the inmates have tested positive for covid-19 [1]. If the remainder of the inmates are tested, a somewhat accurate death rate can be found. I feel like the only people that should quarantine should be pre-existing medical conditions and the very old, but want to see hard data to back this up, interesting info from the linked article, "The vast majority of positive individuals report minor or no symptoms" I don't know how soon from positive test to infection these cases are as well as the age distribution at the prison but this should be looked at regardless.
[1] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14804 https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14804