So it seems 30-50ish times as many people as we thought had the virus, actually have it or have had it...

What they do every time that happens, nothing.

>To me, if there is a chance that I will infect someone who is at high risk, no matter what the risk is to me, I will do what I can to protect that other person
This just doesn't compute with the Christian Party.

Nothing to see here!

washingtonexaminer.com/news/everybody-heres-been-vaccinated-new-york-times-photographer-jokes-about-coronavirus-vaccine-on-hot-mic

'It was a joke.' Lol sure it was.

>Taking into account the statistical margin of error
so what that's like 30% with these tests?

He didn't get shit, he simply doesn't understand math and what the new numbers show the actual mortality rate to be when infected. Antibodies do not lie.

those tests are garbage though. 40% of the Abbot labs were showing positive on fake samples.

>actual mortality rate to be when infected.
that's not the mortality rate

It's pointless to argue. The numbers are the numbers. If 5% of a random sample has antibodies, and if it's indicative of the total population, then 1 in 20 people could have it or have had it. This means the mortality rate is far less than what was reported previously. You can try and anti-logic your way out of it all you want, but facts are facts.

From your article
>*UPDATE: One caveat is that a rough calculation applying the Santa Clara infection fatality rate to New York City's 11,000 COVID-19 deaths would imply that essentially all of city's residents have already been infected with the coronavirus. This seems implausible.

Even the guy who wrote that piece figured out that something is wrong there.

Then he compares the estimated 0.135% mortality rate of the 2017/2018 flu season against the confirmed corona-related death rates and the estimates derived from that. That's outright comparing apples to oranges... or flu to corona. Without merit.
Then it has to be said that the 0.12 - 0.2% rate was always a low estimate and has since been refuted vigorously by essentially everybody else. Serious scientists use estimated of 0.2% - 0.6%. That's 1.48x to 4x the mortality rate.

Lastly you and him seem to forget that corona is far more infectious than the flu. The bad flu season had 45M estimated infections with an estimated 0.135% mortality rate resulting in an estimated 61000 deaths. The US already has 46,500 deaths with 839,000 confirmed cases. Now let's assume that "28 to 55 higher" number was true (which it is not), that would be 23.492.000 to 46.145.000 people in the US who had corona already. Even with all the lockdown measures in place slowing the infection rate...

Experts estimate that shouldn't a vaccine or other method of containment become available, around 200 million people in the US will get infected by the end of the pandemic. 200M * 0.12% (lowest mortality estimate, bogus one) is still 240,000 deaths. Compare that to your estimated 65,000 flu death in the worst flu season in a long time. Oh right, the corona number is much higher. If we use a more likely estimate of 0.25% that number becomes close to half a million dead. Oops.

Over 180,000 people have died globally due to the virus and the number is thought to be underreported.
Can you -please- not ignore THIS number?
Also, there is no vaccine that is proven to work, so there's that too.
Are you trying to sound stupid? Mission accomplished