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NPR: Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought
Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.
The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.
The tests are finding large numbers of people in the U.S. who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.
"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or more based on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body.
And the revised estimates support an early prediction by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force. In an editorial published in late March in The New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci and colleagues wrote that the case fatality rate for COVID-19 "may be considerably less than 1%."
But even a virus with a fatality rate less than 1% presents a formidable threat, Rivers says. "That is many times more deadly than seasonal influenza," she says.
The new evidence is coming from places such as Indiana, which completed the first phase of a massive testing effort early in May.
Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought
Tests for the immune response to the coronavirus are revealing thousands of people who were infected but never got severely ill. The findings suggest the virus is less deadly than it first appeared.
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Doesn't matter if you require passengers to wear a face mask or not; humans are mobile species; there could be passengers coming in contact with carriers of COVID-19 and they won't know. This whole scenario is BS. NYC’s coronavirus contact tracers told not to ask if individual attended protests
Mayor de Blasio has expressed concern that the George Floyd protests could boost the coronavirus pandemic just as New Yorkers have finally gained the upper hand — but City Hall doesn’t seem too interested in finding out for sure. Workers for the city’s contact tracing program are told not to ask those who’ve tested positive for the bug whether they’ve taken part in the demonstrations, instead relying on them to cough up the information themselves, officials said. “We’re doing everything we can to keep New Yorkers safe while respecting individual privacy,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Avery Cohen. “Over the course of their interview with a tracer, a person may be asked if they were in a large crowd or event in recent weeks, with full confidence that any information they share will be protected under the fullest extent of the law.” While there is no specific directive barring tracers from asking about protest participation, Cohen separately told The City, which first reported the indirect approach, that people won’t be asked. So far, the city has not seen a significant spike since the protests, as some had feared, which experts have attributed to a high percentage of mask usage among participants and the open air. But both City Councilmembers and health professionals said that the question should still be asked.
NYC’s coronavirus contact tracers told not to ask if individual attended protests
Mayor de Blasio has expressed concern that the George Floyd protests could boost the coronavirus pandemic just as New Yorkers have finally gained the upper hand — but City Hall doesn’t seem too int…
At this point the threat is much more to China than to the US. They have squashed the disease there and are just combatting local flare ups (like Beijing recently) but have the infrastructure in place to manage it. On the other hand our society is doing minimal contact tracing, testing inconsistently, and many over here consider requests to wear masks to be a violation of the constitution. I'm surprised China is allowing inbound flights at all, much less without a serious quarantine before entering the cities.WTF
Exclusive: United, Delta Cleared to Resume Flights to China Twice a Week - Caixin Global
Exclusive: United, Delta Cleared to Resume Flights to China Twice a Week - Shanghai government action will double weekly flights between China and U.S. to 8 with United arrivals from San Francisco and Delta flying from Seattlewww.caixinglobal.com
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines Restart China Passenger Flights
Delta Air and United are planning to restart passenger flights to mainland China in June, four months after they were suspended following the outbreak.
They better be having some pretty flight attendants roaming the aisles to keep passengers calm.
The question now is,
Was the travel ban for flights to and fro China lifted? And if so, when?
When profits override public safety
Time to prepare ourselves for Wave 2. Its February-March all over again folks.
Coincidentally, there's no doubt that at this point, public health sector jobs are in demand will continue to be so in the coming years ahead. 
