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Every single human on earth has had COVID, multiple times. Its just that 90% of the people who "have COVID" never even know they have it, it's THAT MILD of a d
by kylebenzle 3y ago
Every single human on earth has had COVID, multiple times. Its just that 90% of the people who "have COVID" never even know they have it, it's THAT MILD of a disease. I wonder how many years/generations it will take for people to accept the truth around COVID.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoWhat are your sources for this?
- dilyevsky 3y agoThis paper[0] suggests 94% at the end of 2022. At this point it’s probably closer to a 100%. Technically it’s “at least once” though not “multiple times”. Other papers only cite 25-50% asymptomatic cases since Omicron so not quite 90% but still quite high [0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22282525v3 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22282525v...
- LeafItAlone 3y agoThanks for sharing. I’m admittedly very bad at reading papers like this, but I can’t determine how they are getting to that figure. I’ve never tested positive, despite having been repeatedly tested (at home and PCR), due to the nature of my situation. I do believe, though, that I have probably had it, even if the tests never showed it, because how could I not have?
- dilyevsky 3y agoThey modeled it mathematically using something called “Bayesian evidence synthesis”. It’s a popular method assessing disease rates, war casualties, etc when there’s limited “hard data” available
- seattle_spring 3y agoThe whole reason it was such a difficult disease to contain was because so many people were asymptomatic. That doesn't mean it's a "mild" illness overall. Plenty of people with tuberculosis don't have symptoms, would you call that a mild disease?