dax is yet another retard relying on some DO's advice who knows less about epidemiology than Trump.
Many of us can perform basic math and fractions.
The Cali docs used Government data, to perform basic fraction math.
NYC population is at 25% antibodies, as of last week, when the sampling data was accumulated. The results were announced yesterday.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/0...es-present-in-nearly-25-of-all-nyc-residents/
5 days prior to this announcement, the prior antibody test had NYC at 21% antibodies. So without the lag, in 5 days, NYC antibodies (those exposed to the virus and recovered), grew by 4%. In 5 days.... This is very important.
Lets look at the math.
NYC population = 8.7 million.
NYC antibodies = 25% x 8.7 million = 2.175 million have antibodies (persons exposed to COVID19 and recovered.....yes, it really happens)
NYC deaths = 21,000 est. (NYT article today, below).
NYC Death Rate = 21,000 / 2.175 million recovered COVID19 persons = 0.09%
That death rate is less then an average flu season (0.1%).
Now all the whiners complain about the comparison of YoY seasonal death rates?!! NYC is 21,000 deaths OVER their rolling average, for the same monthly period?!?!
Yes, true. But the *assumption* all the Cassandras make is COVID19 death totals continue indefinitely, with a parabolic trajectory. There's no data, no Country data, and no state data to show thats true. In fact, most countries level off after the extremely elderly and frail are exposed and die.
In fact, it is mostly the extremely old and frail who die from COVID19. After they are exposed, and die off, the death rates drop substantially.
Sweden, for example, never instituted a lockdown, and only has 2K deaths. And the vast majority of those deaths are extremely old people in nursing homes.....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/27/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html
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