At the time, the person who said that was called an idiot.
Well, here we are now, thousands have died, with thousands more on the way, and the economic damage has already been done. That's what happens when you let an idiot run the country.
Still, once the seriousness became clear, most countries did take action. Trump continued to deny and spread misinformation, even to this day.
Amen.
> @Bob_Wachter > 3/ Another interesting #: @ucsf, we only test pts w/ symptoms, who all think "I have Covid.” But only ~4% of our tests are +, meaning most folks who think they have it, don’t.
Also, if you don’t trust the WSJ either (I wouldn’t blame you) here is an article from Nature Medicine that has a comparison of nasal vs stool tests for covid, and Figure 1b really drives home the high rate of false negatives for nasal swab tests compared to stool tests (and throat swabs are even worse than nasal swabs): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0817-4?fbclid=IwA...
Day 1? ~7% false negative Day 10? 40% false negative Day 20? 90% false negative
That's really high, and it seems anecdotally likely that a majority of tests have been administered to people who are 7-10 days or more post-symptom-onset.
Here's the tweet discussing this: https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance/status/1248094573928251398/
And here's the paper: https://t.co/aSdFeLzopH?amp=1
Quite possibly. There are all kinds.
Idiots popping up everywhere, it seems...
CA is a very car-centric state, the public transportation situation is a joke. I'd expect this alone to tamp down the spread relative to NY, considering the density of NYC and how ubiquitous public transportation is there.
I believe the "idiots" referred to above are the people who blindly assumed without evidence the experimental hypothesis of this study simply as an excuse to avoid social distancing and self isolation.