CDC: Coronavirus may have infected 10 times more Americans than known

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In a briefing with reporters Thursday, CDC Director Robert Redfield said surveys of blood samples taken from around the country suggest that millions of Americans may have contracted the virus either without knowing it or with only minimal symptoms.

For every one confirmed case, Redfield said, the CDC estimates that 10 more people have been infected.

"This virus causes so much asymptomatic infection," Redfield said. "We probably recognized about 10 percent of the outbreak."

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/504552-cdc-coronavirus-may-have-infected-10-times-more-americans-than-known

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Odd that there is no discussion of this.

[Sousuke]

Odd that there is no discussion of this.

There was:

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=24461629#post24461629

[Beelzy]

The key word is "suggest"....not proof.

[therealnickb]

There was:

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/...9#post24461629

Since the figures reduce the death and hospitalization %, the fearful have largely ignored the information.

[sigstroker]

"May have" and "If true" are the MSM favorite phrases.

[therealnickb]

Those were CDC words.

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The key word is "suggest"....not proof.

By that logic there is no 'proof' that the flu infects 40~60 million every year as only about 200k are tested and the results are extrapolated.

Dr Redfield knows how the process works, and pretty intimately I would assume as director of the CDC, so his 'suggestion' matches with the science of how we count flu numbers every year.

[duenor]

"May have" and "If true" are the MSM favorite phrases.

what would you prefer people use if they don't know for sure? those words are used all the time when doing research, or making models, or deteriming risk.