| This is bad faith, misleading information and rhetoric. The evidence you sited is a model/estimation and there are much better ways to estimate the prevalence of COVID, namely, literally doing antibody tests. In Jan 20201, 18% of dialysis patients had COVID at some point - as established by actual testing, not predictive modelling - and they are a population much more directly vulnerable to it, so the actual rate in the healthy population will be considerably lower than that.n it's The credibility of your thesis falls flat by first offering bad data, when you could have offered something better. Second, we already know most of those presenting themselves at hospitals have a mild case of COVID. It's normal for people to be concerned, they are not taking up hospital beds. Your 'fact' is a 'non-fact' in this context. Stop cherry-picking and misrepresenting facts, leaving out important details because it will lead to the 'literal dehumanizing' of people, i.e. their deaths. What is 'dangerous' is the pandemic. 600 000 Americans have died from it. [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... |
It was 3.5% in July 2020, and 20% in May 2021, from testing ~1.5 blood donations, which is roughly consistent with other studies, and parallels sensitivity in the UK.
[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2784013