Actual number of U.S. coronavirus cases may be more than double the official tally

Scientists are skeptical of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s new way of counting COVID-19 cases and their claim that the pandemic’s toll is twice as bad as we thought.

The number of deaths may help researchers work backward to total infections, but they happen weeks after infections take place and don’t offer much real-time insight. There is one potentially unbiased source: representative prevalence surveys in which a random group of people are selected for coronavirus testing.

Irons and his colleagues looked at data from two random testing surveys conducted in Indiana and Ohio and used those numbers to calibrate a model they built using less-perfect data sources: deaths, number of confirmed cases, and number of tests performed.The researchers found that, by early March, only 1 out of every 2.3 infections in the U.S. had been confirmed via testing — meaning that well over half of coronavirus infections in the country have gone unreported. They determined that about 19.

“This suggests that the United States was far from reaching herd immunity and that it was unlikely to do so from infections alone in the short term while state and local governments continued to implement lockdowns and other mitigations,” the study authors wrote.

coronavirus cases are irrelevant. More than 90% of those infected have no symptoms. The recovery rate is over 99.9%.

What is this disguised guy doing? One could think we face the plague, lol!

It’s been this way for, oh I don’t know, 18 months?!

sadly

So either the cases are doubled therefore the death rate drops by half or because the testing was faulty the case number is less therefore death rate is higher either way isn't this misinformation according to the White House. & the social media overlords?

Yes, undercounting cases was part of Trump’s re-election strategy.

It's more like the number Big Pharma changes five times a day.

And deaths likely half

the antivaxx anti mask anti life pro death pro sickness have droned on about “lOsIng tHeIr fReEdUmbZ” for months. now those of us who followed the rules; got vaccinated, stayed home, & masked up are losing our freedom because of THEIR selfish behavior.

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