Tests are only if your trying to eradicate it, I don't believe you can eradicate it, so I'm with Trumpy on this strangely, if you try to do that, you'll still be fighting it and locking down in 10years time. Talking entire population pretty much daily for this to work for years to come with your borders shut, until there is ZERO infections in your Country then only unlocking when there are ZERO infections for some time in the world. Plague and a 50% mortality rate YES you'd have to do that, but C19 with tiny mortality rate hell no! Masks where WHO being stupid not Trumpy, he just followed there so called expertise. China just done hard lock downs, there getting it back, repeat repeat repeat until most of the population has, the effect is starting to cause food shortage, looting and way more deaths than C19 is capable of.
its not strange. It's what i would expect . so send your resume to the Jackass and he'll no doubt hire you as "ACTING Head of U.S. CoVid Mitigation." You're all Jackasses.
Not a Trumpy supporter infact more of a hater, so it's strange. We'll see who's the jack ass soon I suspect. It's not like the UK ( See other thread ) give a shit about old people dying in OAP homes, seems France is doing the same just included loads of OAP deaths from homes.
Germany could test all of Iceland in one day! They have been doing over 300K tests per day for quite some time. They wear masks. They identify infectious individuals very early, they quarantine them, they follow positives closely and get them into the hospital quickly if their are advance signs of deterioration (They do blood tests to evaluate). And they haven't had to shut done the country. But they have shut down what they call public life. Rock concerts, discos, etc., any large gathering and are practicing appropriate distancing. They are still working though. Current death rate there is ~1.3%, and I think that is accurate because you know germans are rather law abiding and sticklers when it comes to keeping track of things. They test so many that they have a very good handle on the number of asymptomatic but infectious -- they get quarantined immediately and will suffer the symptoms after the incubation period with the same probabilities as those who have already gone on to develop symptoms. The largest number get only mild symptoms -- true everywhere. The Germans are also planning a large antibody study. I don't know when Iceland started testing but I doubt they were the first to adopt widespread testing. That was probably China, but of course it is unrealistic to think that China, being first, could ramp up to test a billion people fast enough to do them much good. But I imagine they are still engaged in ramping testing up. I think both South Korea and Germany are the best models we have for how to Tackle this Virus until a vaccine is ready. Using plasma antibodies from those who have recovered is a promising therapy for the gravely ill, just not enough available at present. The U.S. had plenty of warning to get masks and testing ramped up, but was asleep at the switch. The leadership in the U.S. has been abysmal, and that's an understatement.
I read that the vast majority of Germany's infected are under the age of 60. And the death rate is still 1.3%. And they are not missing many infected people by the sound of things.
Iceland's study is the 1st one I've seen where a large component of the population (percentage wise) had been tested. I am aware S. Korea & other countries have tested millions, though don't know what their population percentage that entails. Germany also has a physicist that understands exponential growth as a chancellor
Gentlemen: There are TWO tests relevant here -- one for testing whether the virus is in your blood. For this, you may be symptomatic or asymptomatic, but the virus bits will still be detectable in your blood, nasal drips, coughs, skin sloughs, pooh, etc. THE OTHER TEST though, is WHETHER YOU HAVE ANTIBODIES -- in other words, whether you have already HAD the virus, and have cleared it from your body. Whether you were symptomatic (and knew you were sick) or asymptomatic (and had no idea), those antibodies would remain with you. THIS IS THE MISSING NUMBER THAT INVALIDATES JUST ABOUT EVERY STATISTICAL CLAIM ABOUT CoVID-19 THAT YOU'VE HEARD THUS FAR. And this is what deCode has done/is doing in Iceland. None of you understood this. (All of you should be seeing that "jackass" looking back from the mirror.) Although anyone with a statistical brain-cell notes this oh-so-quietly, it seems that only MIT, Yale, and now Stanford have anybody willing to bleat out this simple observation... "Your denominator is fuqued.": https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/nobody-knows-the-number.342769/
except we know the recovery & hospitalization rate in the field and we have such tools as extrapolation in statistics.
The antibody tests wont prove anything significant. Countries like South Korea has been mass testing people for the actual virus for a long time. They would have been seeing a lot more as asymptotic infections, if there was a large pool out there will antibodies, that pool will have been positive for the virus at some stage. The ratio of 2:1 is pretty consistent for a long time.