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		soperj on Oct 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising ag... If 90% of cases are unsymptomatic and not showing up in the cases, then 75 million people in the US will have already had covid, and you're also getting 400 thousand new cases a day. Sorry, but that's nonsense.

logicchains on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

For some states the population infection rates are 20-30%, so it's not an unreasonable number (https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563/rr-5)

soperj on Oct 1, 2020 | [–]

It is. All states would have to be in that range.

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