Coronavirus

[Fellbeast]

The seven day average of reported cases is 21,864 so if the 96,000 of people catching it is true then there must be a heck of a lot of asymptomatic people out there. More than 75% of people don't even realise they have the virus. Wouldn't that be good news?

So if the current death figures are based on actual infections a few weeks ago that were more than four times the number of reported cases, the infection fatality rate is probably smaller than we thought. Again, good news, no?

You do realise that it’s quite feasible for, I dunno, half of those 96,000 projected daily cases to absolutely recognise symptoms of the virus and just be waiting on test results don’t you? And another bunch could have some symptoms which they’re either choosing to ignore or, at present, don’t yet correlate as being the virus? The last reliable estimate I heard of asymtomatic cases was just under 20% so yeah that would still be a big number of 18,000 ish each day that are asymtomatic