Oh BS. SK tests widely. There are 9000 cases and 100 deaths so about .1% rate of death. In the US there are 672 deaths matching to 67,000 cases if the statistics hold. That’s far from 6ook or 6M or 60M or some other hyperinflated number.
Again, read the article or excerpt. It means the vast majority of people that get it, have no or mild symptoms and aren’t being tested for it.
Those tests, and all the tests we are seeing results for are RT-PCR, not serological; i.e. they are only detecting those who have active virus in their system, not those who have been exposed and successfully fought it off. The article is dead on, this is what we should be doing right now to figure out the appropriate response. I also suspect the mystery, non-flu illness going around the Northeast since late January was in fact Covid.
Those tests aren’t for people who have recovered. But then again, I agree it’s highly unlikely that half the population has been exposed. In light of the testing in HK, Japan, Free China, Singapore....