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To: EternalHope
To your list I'd add the issue of asymptomatic spread. I find it incredible that no large scale testing has been done to find whether or not the virus has entered the community at large in a less virulent manner. Someone should be doing random testing of a few thousand people in Hong Kong to give us some baseline data. Hong Kong, because the epidemic there was wide, seems to have about run its course, and its authorities have set up reasonably transparent accounting of cases.
70 posted on 06/16/2003 10:36:53 AM PDT by per loin
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To: per loin
To your list I'd add the issue of asymptomatic spread. I find it incredible that no large scale testing has been done to find whether or not the virus has entered the community at large in a less virulent manner.

Good point. However, I am not sure that any tests exist that are sensitive enough to do this kind of testing without a high false negative rate.

72 posted on 06/16/2003 10:45:12 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever.)
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To: per loin
I find it incredible that no large scale testing has been done to find whether or not the virus has entered the community at large in a less virulent manner.

Has it not been done, or is it just not being reported?

73 posted on 06/16/2003 10:46:52 AM PDT by aristeides
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