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It’s a bit strange that only 1 in 70 are testing positive who take a test.
That might be because key workers have to be taking them perhaps?
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Now maybe yes, but in the first few months where they were only testing people that really thought they had it and were getting 1 in 45 positives (I just had a cursory look at mid-May)
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Where are you getting 1 in 70 positive from?
These charts are suggesting much higher positive test rates:
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I imagine loads of people are faking symptoms so they can take a test and then see their family.
rj
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Yes, along with all the asymptomatic carriers that only get caught because of contact tracing and routine testing, rather than suspecting covid.
At the current rate, we’ll have another 2 million people testing positive for covid in less than 1 month. That could be another 50000 deaths. By beginning of Feb 2021.