Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
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?
Asymptomatic? Or presymptomatic? Or unable to get a "Serco" test in the usual way and coincidentally contacted randomly by React-1 so of course went along with it? And if many never have any symptoms, or at least troublesome symptoms, whilst it may be good news for them, it may not be good news for those they spread it to.

Some doubt React-1's figures - their subjects are selected randomly, and the scientists involved will know the accuracy of the tests they use, and will be able to adjust the results accordingly.

Unless we have a tight lockdown soon - Tier 3 is obviously not tight enough - ITUs will be in real trouble. The first wave was bad enough. It is a shame we have not learned lessons and upped the quality/quantity of test/trace/isolate.