COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Arathrael said

Look at it this way: the UK is testing people with symptoms, mostly hospital admissions at this point. If we take the last five days, around 18% of those have been positive. That really doesn't seem to fit with the notion of 50% of the UK having been exposed to it, does it?

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Exactly. The whole thing is total nonsense. The only people being tested in most countries are the very most likely cases, and they're coming in at less than 1 in 5 of those being positive. I do think the numbers are much higher than the cases being reported, but they're nowhere near 50%. Maybe if you drop the a zero off of that number you're getting warmer.