....* "than it first appeared" thanks to those alarmist models funded* *by the Gates Foundation.*
*MCM* Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought - May 28, 20201:11 PM ET https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/28/863944333/antibody-tests-point-to-lower-death-rate-for-the-coronavirus-than-first-thought [image: Jon Hamilton 2010] <https://www.npr.org/people/2100615/jon-hamilton> JON HAMILTON <https://www.npr.org/people/2100615/jon-hamilton> LISTEN·3:553-Minute ListenAdd toPLAYLIST - Download <https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2020/05/20200527_atc_new_data_shows_the_coronavirus_is_less_lethal_than_first_thought.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&aggIds=812054919&d=235&story=863944333&dl=1&siteplayer=true&size=3756753&dl=1> - Embed People line up in mid-April in Chelsea, Mass., to get antibody tests for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared. The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself. The tests are finding large numbers of people in the U.S. who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous. "The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers <https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/rivers/index.html>, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or more <https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality> based on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body. And the revised estimates support an early prediction by Dr. Anthony Fauci <https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director>, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force. In an editorial <https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387> published in late March in *The* *New England Journal of Medicine*, Fauci and colleagues wrote that the case fatality rate for COVID-19 "may be considerably less than 1%." -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W-P_vdAgK%2BuhXQaJee-QNNpn-VJYgu0dHwry551pKE2Cw%40mail.gmail.com.
