There are tons of people being told to just stay home if you think you have mild symptoms. Don’t go to an emergency room, don’t waste your doctor’s time. In fact they are are not hospitalizing unless you can’t breathe anymore.
These are the people who haven’t been counted as infected.
So NIH and CDC didn’t goof up. The mitigation itself necessitated rules that kept people with mild symptoms from being counted. We won’t know their numbers until tests are widely available for all, both pathological and antibody. In NYC we just have 30,000 tests coming available tomorrow, aside from those for people who had serious symptoms.
In short, the original estimates were off because of that conflict, between mitigation needs and the need for counting asymptomatics.
It was also interesting what she said about herd immunity. Everyone’s casting that term about but it is only properly used in the context of vaccination.
I heard that as well and just about hit the roof when I heard it. Not only is that patently false it contradicts what she said earlier about speeding up antibody testing for health care workers to see if it is safe for them to go back to work.
Sorry folks, but if there’s no natural immunity a vaccine, which is an attempt to artificially create immunity, is worthless.
Except as I understand, the hydroquinine should be taken BEFORE the virus has caused severe breathing difficulties.
Many things are easier to fix with less effort if the fix is started when trouble starts.
Waiting until person is in dire straits smacks of malpractice.