A coronavirus mystery: How many people in L.A. actually have COVID-19?

  • 📰 latimes
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 93 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 41%
  • Publisher: 82%

Health Health Headlines News

Health Health Latest News,Health Health Headlines

How many people in L.A. actually have coronavirus? Why health officials still don't know for sure

Anti-black online hate speech prompted students at Granada Hills Charter High School to speak out against racism.

Random chance could also be a reason. “If you toss a coin 10 times, you don’t always get five heads. Sometimes you might get one head and sometimes you might get all 10 as a head,” said Sood, who is also an author of the Stanford report, at a recent press conference. “I want to emphasize that this is completely speculative at this time. We haven’t fully investigated this issue, but this is something we will look at,” Sood said. “This is right now just a potential explanation. It doesn’t mean that we think this is a likely explanation.”

It’s also possible the first L.A. County study was simply problematic. The first studies of antibody prevalence in L.A. and Santa Clara counties came underThe simplest answer is that the first L.A. County study had too many false positives, said Dr. George Rutherford, epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at UC San Francisco."I suspect what was really going on was ... they overestimated to start with and now they’re coming out with probably a closer estimate.

Rutherford said across California, he suspects that 1% of residents have been infected with the coronavirus at some point. It could be higher in Los Angeles County, but Rutherford said he thought even a 2% prevalence rate for L.A. County may be slightly high.with the coronavirus is too high, and he could see it perhaps being 10%.

Sood also said the test his team used, sold by Minneapolis-based Premier Biotech, was informally evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for accuracy and had good results: The FDA found a 0% false positive rate and a 7% false negative rate, Sood said. The FDA has allowed Premier Biotech’s coronavirus antibody test to be used for research purposes but not yet for clinical purposes.Finally, Sood said his study’s results are consistent with what he says is the U.S.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

What? So the LA Times, Newsom and Garcetti were blowing this out all out of proportion and created widespread panic for nothing? Who woulda thunk it?

We know the people that die or died of it, they did.

Just act like everyone has it.

Same problem in my whole country 🇧🇷

Four months into that and the still doesn't get the difference between SARSCov2 and COVIDー19. Sad really.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 11. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Authors retract Lancet article that found risks in hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19An influential medical journal article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was retracted on Thursday, adding to controversy around a drug championed by U.S. President Donald Trump. politics ruined everything ...even medicine... Just cause Trump used it ...it became bad. .. even the W.H.O Put back its trials on it after suspending it Politics got in the way of Science. The fact will prove Trump's right on hydroxychloroquine.
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »