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by reedlaw 2243 days ago
From the video around 4:40:

> 33,865 COVID cases out of a total of 280,900 total tested--that's 12% of Californians were positive for COVID.

This would only be true if those tested were randomly selected. Even in the most optimistic Santa Clara County study prevalence was estimated at under 5%. 1

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...