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Study: U.S. COVID-19 cases underestimated by half, antibody testing suggests
UPI ^ | March 16 , 2021 | Brian P. Dunl eavy

Posted on 03/17/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by george76

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Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit could not point to a single case of asymptomatic transmission..

Asymptomatic transmission of covid did not occur at all, study of 10 million people finds.. The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare..

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1 posted on 03/17/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by george76
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And do we cut that number by 75% due to false positives?


2 posted on 03/17/2021 11:46:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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Most of those who tested positive for antibodies were in their late 30s or early 40s, which researchers say is significant given that younger people are believed to be at lower risk for serious illness, or symptoms, from COVID-19. These people may be unknowingly driving spread of the virus, the researchers said.

That last line is a bald-faced lie. Some "Researcher" with a degree in what?

3 posted on 03/17/2021 11:50:09 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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The belief that asymptomatic people can spread or even the principal driver of spreading CV is the basis of all the pandemic mitigation protocols (masking, social distancing, lockdowns, etc.). If the powers that be admit asymptomatic spread isn’t a factor, then they also have to admit they screwed up royally. Anyone expect the politicians to do so?


4 posted on 03/17/2021 11:50:17 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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That would make the death rate miniscule. Mask up!


5 posted on 03/17/2021 11:50:33 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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“The primary means of transmission of this virus is the asymptomatic population — the patient [who] is unaware of their infectious status and is therefore at risk of unknowing spreading the virus,” said Stout, a researcher with Lenexa, Kansas-based Clinical Reference Laboratory. The company that specializes in health testing for life insurance applicants.

I remember Fauci saying that it was exceedingly rare for someone that is asymptomatic to transfer the virus. Which one of these guys is a liar?


6 posted on 03/17/2021 11:52:41 AM PDT by spudville
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I am sure that most of these undiagnosed cases died. Oh wait.....


7 posted on 03/17/2021 11:52:43 AM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked
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WOOHOO....we’re twice as close to herd immunity!


8 posted on 03/17/2021 11:53:37 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Fauxcy, CDC, NIH, FDA are all guilty of dereliction of duty in not providing timely Science regarding the Pandemic in any number of ways.

Starting, Big Time, with test development and field use of same.


9 posted on 03/17/2021 11:53:46 AM PDT by Paladin2
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But only 80 million people voted for Biden, so logic dictates there must be at least three times more dead people that that


10 posted on 03/17/2021 11:53:53 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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So....

TWICE as many people had the virus than they let on?

Doesn’t that lower the fatality rate substantially??? -Which was already LESS than 1%...

But... we’re supposed to be frightened for our lives still, right?


11 posted on 03/17/2021 11:54:25 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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“as of September 2020”\

Seems to me there should br much more recent info.


12 posted on 03/17/2021 11:55:47 AM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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Both the Austrians and Italians concluded this antibody ratio around six months ago....nothing new.


13 posted on 03/17/2021 11:55:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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"The primary means of transmission of this virus is the asymptomatic population -- the patient [who] is unaware of their infectious status and is therefore at risk of unknowing spreading the virus,"

No proof, and in fact more than one peer reviewed study confirmed that asymptomatic cases are not major avenues of infection. Infection requires some level of viral load, close contact exposure, and some period of time. One of the reasons asymptomatic persons are asymptomatic is the viral load they received and/or the viral load they have due to their own antibodies is generally too weak to issue a significant infectious viral load to others. When and if they develop symptoms (which MOST due not) they may be infectious to others.

14 posted on 03/17/2021 12:03:01 PM PDT by Wuli
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I don’t trust any of this. Studies are so crooked now.


15 posted on 03/17/2021 12:06:10 PM PDT by Revel
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That's what I've been saying all along. We have been building herd immunity all along.

Give the teachers the shot. Open the damn schools. No masks. No 6 ft...or is it 3 now?

16 posted on 03/17/2021 12:07:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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My thought exactly!


17 posted on 03/17/2021 12:08:12 PM PDT by luckymom (The Son of God became a man that men might become sons of God. -C.S. Lewis)
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96% of nearly 3,300 inmates in four state prisons lack symptoms but tested positive for coronavirus..

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/96-of-nearly-3-300-inmates-in-four-state-prisons-lack-symptoms-but-tested-positive-for-coronavirus


18 posted on 03/17/2021 12:13:03 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ConservaTexan

Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winnah!

ConservaTexan nailed it!


19 posted on 03/17/2021 12:15:25 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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So, are those of us who have felt fine this whole time now considered Typhoid Marys who should politely brick ourselves up in the wall, or what?

/the mask of Amontillado


20 posted on 03/17/2021 12:21:50 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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