A team of researchers from Stanford University and other California colleges recruited volunteers in Santa Clara County to take blood tests and the sensational results reveal that 50 times more people than forecasted have had the coronavirus and now possess the antibodies that makes them immune.
Some 3,000 people volunteered to take a blood test, U.S. Spectator reported:
That might not seem many, however at the time of the study– on April 4 and 5– just 1,094 people in the county were recorded as having the infection.
The @stanford antibody screening is out– it estimates ~ 3%of individuals in Santa Clara County (CA) have actually been contaminated and recovered, 50- plus times the quote of validated active cases. More proof #SARSCoV 2 is far more extensive and hence less hazardous than anticipated. pic.twitter.com/wWw7M6RXfM
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 17, 2020
Like lots of research studies which have actually been pre-published in order to help understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper produced by the Stanford-led team has actually not yet been peer-reviewed. Additionally, it occurred in a part of the United States where very couple of people have actually up until now evaluated positive with the virus. It would be fascinating to see the experiment repeated in New york city City, where recorded infections are far greater.
However it is one more piece in a jigsaw which is gradually constructing up an image of a virus which might be far more prevalent– and possibly far less fatal– than was at first believed.
The Viewer reported on a similar research study in northwestern Germany where 15 percent of the population was discovered to have the antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the infection stress that triggers the novel coronavirus.
” Were that to be shown in the larger population, it would still mean we were a long way except the 60 percent infection rate which clinical advisors originally considered necessary for ‘herd resistance’ of the population,” the Spectator reported. “However it would indicate we were well en route.”
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