Posted on 04/09/2020 4:02:08 PM PDT by absalom01
Coronavirus was detected in Massachusetts sewage at higher levels than expected, suggesting there are many more undiagnosed patients than previously known, according to a new study.
Researchers from biotech startup Biobot Analytics collected samples from a wastewater facility for an unnamed metropolitan area in late March, according to a report Tuesday on medRxiv.
Eric Alm, one of the authors of the study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, stressed that the public is not at risk of contracting the virus from particles in the wastewater, but they may have the potential to indicate how widespread the virus has become, Newsweek reported.
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The researchers, along with a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, analyzed the samples and found the number of coronavirus particles was on par with if there were 2,300 people infected with the virus.
New York is now the coronavirus capital of the world But at the time of tests, there were only 446 confirmed cases in the region, according to the study.
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Sh!thole countries and sh!thole states are rife with disease.
Of course no one will say anecdotal.
No, it’s the gospel truth. Now the water supply is contaminated.
We’re all going to die!!!
So if many have had it and we’re never tested the fatality rate is waaaay lower than stated. Also all of the Panic Porn is designed to hurt Trump, help Biden, and c use the US
If true, then the mortality rate drops drastically also
I have assumed a factor of 10.
So this is good news.
study found that there were probably 5x more people infected than the official case count
This would make sense given that it appears that 80% of the infected are asymptomatic so they would have little reason to be tested.
We can’t refer to them as Massholes for a while.
They said it is spread through feces.
Does this mean that the Massholes are a bunch of Contaminated _ssholes?
Are you for real? You post something that is not even close to being verified by any one and try to scare folks? Why??
Thanks for the posting of this article. I think we all know that we are not counting all the cases. At least we now have at least one datapoint. It’s maybe 5X.
That would be good news for the death rate if we could actually count non-hospitalized deaths and not over estimate hospital deaths.
Adjust the mortality calculation for this and the fact that everybody who died in a hospital has been counted and we wouldn’t be locked down right now.
I cannot argue with what you wrote. I will only point out that Trump was presented with a horrible catch-22.
Do nothing and he would be blamed for every death and you and I both heard the same apocalyptic predictions.
Lock the country down for months due to this and he would be blamed for killing the economy.
I think he split it down the middle.
We will know much more about this pandemic next month and in the months to come. No matter what we learn he will be criticized and it will be politicized.
With successful treatment regimes available and as testing comes online we should be able to get back to work. History will form its own judgment and I hope a sizeable amount of the story is aimed at our media. The hype and hysteria of this thing in the media has been awful.
Got to add in all those people who have/had the virus but have showed or felt minimal or no symptoms so we can shut down the rest of the economy and get those trucks off the road and those ships impounded in port. Can’t end this emergency while one commercial transaction is happening anywhere.
Why would an assay that seeks a clever way to determine the actual number of infections scare anyone?
I believe there’s a similar effort underway in San Jose, California.
I think that’s rather important information.
And the article is quite clear stating that they don’t have any reason to think that the sewage flows they’re testing can transmit the ChiCom bioweapon. There’s plenty of other nasty stuff in there though.
Yes, to around .6
Nobody tell Dr. Scarf or she’ll “recommend” we hold it in until the emergency is over.
I bet more 10% we’re exposed already
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