(1) Dr. John Campbell on the current situation in the UK
A few points for the impatient:
- antibody testing indicates that the official case numbers are an underestimate by about a factor of ten
- however, based on data from Sweden where they were able to test for memory T-cells (a much harder test), about twice as many people have immunity as the simpler antibody test indicates
- That corresponds, in aggregrate, to a Dunkelziffer (hidden infection rate) of about 20:1
- about 6% of school children in the UK have antibodies. Significantly, only 1 on 10 of them reported ever having had any symptoms. Or, to put it differently, 90% of cases in that age bracket are asymptomatic. I have been suspecting for a while that not just severity of the disease is age-dependent, but also the rate of symptomatic infection.
(2) An article in the Daily Telegraph comments on a…
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