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That's useful, thanks. Though an estimate of seroprevalence based on a blood bank survey (both of these are from the same group, using the same method) has issu
by timr 6y ago
That's useful, thanks. Though an estimate of seroprevalence based on a blood bank survey (both of these are from the same group, using the same method) has issues with bias (in particular, see the number of re-weightings performed and the huge impact of these adjustments in Figure 2A of the second link), that makes me hesitant to believe any claim starting with "75% of the population was infected, therefore..."
In other words: if we're seeing a resurgence in cases now, the parsimonious answer is that the blood-bank survey estimate was wrong, not that the virus is escaping all immunity. My prior probability of this explanation is dramatically increased when I see that the seroprevalence data was adjusted upward by a factor of 2-3 to account for "seroreversion" (which is essentially guessing).