Yes Lag on the damn antibody test FFS, damn virus never easy. These tests are best done three or four weeks after the initial onset of symptoms, when the majority of people will have developed detectable antibodies. The tests can be carried out in designated laboratories or provided as simple kits for self-testing. The government has discussed the purchase and validation of self-testing kits, and floated the idea that a positive antibody test might lead to the issuing of some kind of immunity certificate. However, we don’t yet have a reliable test and we won’t know for some time whether antibodies predict immunity to reinfection, or for how long. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/07/antibody-tests-uk-lockdown-exit-strategy So a test done today is really a test done 2 or 3 weeks ago, current cases 880K USA ( can't see NYC ) go back 14days and cases where approx 506K so big difference, well over 50% at 21days.
Those are old tests, the new ones test for two different types of anti bodies. Anti bodies that appear more quickly and also ones that appear after 2 weeks. Besides New York has been in lockdown for over 4 weeks now. So there wont have been massive number of infections over the last two or three weeks anyway, that these tests have supposedly missed. Otherwise there would have been massive increase of hospitals visits about now as well.
This Netherlands anti body sample was quite big, 7000 tests: "An antibody surveillance scheme in the Netherlands suggested the death rate for COVID-19 could actually be in the region of 0.63%. Dutch researchers found antibodies in 3% of blood donors, after analysing samples from around 7,000 people aged between 18 and 69. Around 17million people live in the Netherlands. Three per cent of the country's population would equate to approximately 500,000. When results were published on April 16, official figures showed that 3,315 people had died after testing positive for COVID-19 in the Netherlands." The Dutch sampled the whole country. A similar test for the US will produce the same sort of results: 3% infection rate over entire US, around 10 million infections. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...of-population-may-have-coronavirus-antibodies
WHO is trying to tell Trump there is no herd immunity: https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...covered-covid-19-patients-are-immune-who-says
WHO have screwed up so much, I really hope nobody listens to them, infact as there saying that, we are all good they've got everything else wrong. Glad he cut there funding
Tad early to be sure weekend data iffy, but sweden looks like could be over the top already. NYC aswell, which means its a low top and tests wrong as not expecting a top to 60-80% area. Fingers crossed and toes!