Posted on 04/19/2020 3:27:33 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
Around a third of participants in a Massachusetts study tested positive for antibodies linked with coronavirus, according to researchers.
The Mass. General study took samples from 200 residents on the street in Chelsea, MA.
Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager.
Ambrosino called Chelsea the epicenter of the crisis in Massachusetts. Chelsea has the state’s highest rate of confirmed cases, with at least 712 confirmed cases and 39 deaths – an infection rate of around 2 percent. ....
Doctors used a device made by BioMedomics to analyze the samples. The test hasn’t been approved by the FDA, but Mass. General approved the device for use.
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While the participants appeared healthy, about half told the doctors that they experienced at least one symptom of COVID-19 in the past four weeks.
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The % of total deaths that were of a certain age and/or had an underlying condition is frequently cited, however, I have yet to see the percentage of such people who survive the virus.
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