New data confirms what experts have long believed: Because a significant percentage of people infected with COVID-19 don’t show any symptoms, and many who do aren't able to get tested, coronavirus infection rates may be higher than confirmed cases suggest.
April 24, 2020 -- Coronavirus infection rates may be higher than confirmed cases suggest, new data show.
Researchers hoping to figure out that number have been using antibody tests and other data to try and figure out who’s been exposed. As more data come to light, researchers hope it will help shape policies around social distancing guidelines as officials look to reopen the country.Hard-hit New York, the first state to do its own antibody testing, found an estimated 13.9% prevalence rate statewide, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. The rate was even higher in New York City, at 21.2%.
These early figures would lower the fatality to infection rate to .5%, Cuomo said. But he cautioned that the data is preliminary and that current fatality rates will go higher because they don’t include at-home deaths.based on antibody tests caused an uproar this week, when preliminary results suggested that more than 50 times as many people had been infected as had tested positive in Santa Clara County, CA.
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