Coronavirus Survey Reveals 13.9% In New York Have COVID-19 Antibodies, Cuomo Says

WLNY ^ | 04/23/2020

[BenLurkin]

The state took 3,000 tests throughout New York to get a so-called snapshot of the infection rate.

The number from New York City was startling: More than a fifth tested positive, having recovered or been asymptomatic.

As far as the breakdown by region:
•Long Island, 16.7%
•New York City, 21.2%
•Westchester/Rockland, 11.7% •The rest of state 3.6%

Results show antibodies in 12% of women and 15.9% of men, but a disproportionate rate of antibodies in black and Latino New Yorkers. The governor says in part because many are essential workers.

“Also, you have more people in the New York City area. More people getting on subways, getting on buses, more people dealing with that density, and we know that’s where it communicates,” Cuomo said.

The Governor says he’s working with churches in those communities. Many have volunteered for testing sites.

[lepton]

These numbers are very interesting in a variety of ways, ranging from throwing some shade on the veracity of the tests (the initial tests for positive/negative verification were performed on totals of about a dozen people);

to an expectation that the disease should really be burning itself out - and comparisons to the flu transmission rates;

to the notices that the test starts picking people up as positive at 4 days, when few people with the disease are even symptomatic yet.

And are folks who tested positive by the test even after a few weeks, actually immune to it now?

[Bubba_Leroy]

You could not design a more efficient method of infecting as many people as possible as quickly as possible than packing most of your population into subway cars twice a day.

[zeestephen]

Re: “New York City - 21.2% COVID infection rate”

Let’s do the math...

NYC Population - 8.4 million

Number of Infections - 8,400,000 X 21.2% = 1.78 million

NYC COVID Deaths - 16,388

NYC Case Fatality Rate - 16,388 divided by 1,780,000 = 0.9%

Less than 1% of COVID infected persons in NYC die.

When you factor in the fraudulent accounting process for COVID-19 fatalities, the CFR in NYC is no more deadly than a serious influenza season.

[brookwood]

if you think .9% is low risk like the flu (.01%) then roll the dice. If I put 10 revolvers in front of you and only one had a bullet in it, would you pick one and put it up to your head and pull the trigger?
But at least you got the numbers right.
You get wrong the “serious influenza season” - there is no flu season that has that kind of death rate since 1918.