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I’d love to see real numbers of how many people have been infected, but I have no idea how you would get them. Do you have any suggestions?
by amanaplanacanal 5y ago
I’d love to see real numbers of how many people have been infected, but I have no idea how you would get them. Do you have any suggestions?
- nradov 5y agoThe most accurate approach would be to do repeated blood tests of a large nationwide study population looking at both antibodies and memory T cells. The CDC really should have been doing that nationwide for the past year.
- manwe150 5y agoThe Red Cross Blood Donation centers perhaps come closest to doing this. From their emails, it sounded like they never saw widespread active antibodies (until a few months ago).
- nradov 5y agoThe Red Cross only did antibody testing which has a significant false negative rate, especially on patients who recovered from mild infections many months ago. That's why getting accurate numbers would require repeatedly testing the same subjects at regular intervals, and also assaying their memory T cells.
- ping_pong 5y agoHow can you do that with over 50% of the population fully vaccinated?
- nradov 5y agoThe point is that they should have been doing that since tests were first available, before anyone was vaccinated. Even now it would still be a useful study in the unvaccinated population.