Yyyeah that research is kinda questionable for a few reasons, primarily that somehow all of the people they found antibodies in were asymptomatic during that period EVEN THOUGH they were 55+ years old AND smokers. This sounds incredibly unlikely, almost as incredibly unlikely as the insanely high number reported. Like, yeah, it's not a representative group and all, but 11% BEFORE it was even detected? Yeah, no. Even if we don't consider that group representative, I don't see any serious reason why the prevalence among that group should be that much higher. I'm pretty sure they fucked something up because it makes 0 sense. For context, up to December the CDC estimates around 15% of the US had contracted COVID in total. Again, that's up to this December. It is a HUGE number, with vast consequences, and we're supposed to accept that a percentage about 2/3rds of that had infected Italy before the disease was even detected? There should be follow up studies because this one is just weird and suspicious.
Yyyeah that research is kinda questionable for a few reasons, primarily that somehow all of the people they found antibodies in were asymptomatic during that period EVEN THOUGH they were 55+ years old AND smokers. This sounds incredibly unlikely, almost as incredibly unlikely as the insanely high number reported. Like, yeah, it's not a representative group and all, but 11% BEFORE it was even detected? Yeah, no. Even if we don't consider that group representative, I don't see any serious reason why the prevalence among that group should be that much higher. I'm pretty sure they fucked something up because it makes 0 sense. For context, up to December the CDC estimates around 15% of the US had contracted COVID in total. Again, that's up to this December. It is a HUGE number, with vast consequences, and we're supposed to accept that a percentage about 2/3rds of that had infected Italy before the disease was even detected? There should be follow up studies because this one is just weird and suspicious.