By Steve Holland 1 hr ago

Reuters logoCoronavirus may have infected 10 times more Americans than reported, CDC says
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - Government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said.

The estimate, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is based on serology testing used to determine the presence of antibodies that show whether an individual has had the disease, the officials said.


The officials, speaking to a small group of reporters on Wednesday night, said the estimate was based on the number of known cases, between 2.3 million and 2.4 million, multiplied by the average rate of antibodies seen from the serology tests, about an average of 10 to 1.

"If you multiply the cases by that ratio, that's where you get that 20 million figure," said one official.

If true, the estimate would suggest the percentage of U.S. deaths from the disease is lower than thought. More than 120,000 Americans have died from the disease since the pandemic erupted earlier this year.

The estimate comes as government officials note that many new cases are showing up in young people who do not exhibit symptoms and may not know they have it.

Officials said young people with no symptoms, but who are in regular contact with vulnerable populations, should proactively get tested to make sure they do not spread it.

"We have heard from Florida and Texas that roughly half of the new cases that are reporting are people under the age of 35, and many of them are asymptomatic," one official said.

The CDC has sent 40 response teams to help deal with the outbreaks, they said.

More than 36,000 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded nationwide on Wednesday, just shy of the record 36,426 on April 24, concentrated on states that were spared the brunt of the initial outbreak or moved early to lift restrictions aimed at curbing the virus' spread.

OH MY GOD!

We're all gonna die

Exponential.

"The estimate comes as government officials note that many new cases are showing up in young people who do not exhibit symptoms and may not know they have it."

"We have heard from Florida and Texas that roughly half of the new cases that are reporting are people under the age of 35, and many of them are asymptomatic," one official said.

The CDC has sent 40 response teams to help deal with the outbreaks, they said."

For what?

For the money.

To justify their ongoing existence.

thats actually a good thing isn't it? herd immunity, kill rate is much lower, etc.,

HUNKER DOWN , BUY BEANS , AND HOARD TOILET PAPER

Well.....duh


Just another flu

"Hey let's all stay inside for six months and see what happens."

(Six months later)

"OH MY GOD! EVERYBODY'S SICK!!!"

Yeah because after all we've reached herd immunity with all the other corona viruses right ?

I’m sure they are going to make us all wear masks at work. That is going to suck.

All for mail in ballots, pull off a massive voter fraud

Yes it does. Been a month of the bs already.

The government liars need to find something else to gaslight us with. I don't believe a word of it. The endgame is universal vaccination - the business plan of Bill Gates.

Remember when they said virtually everyone will be exposed eventually?

It's like pop-up ads.

CDC is trying to increase their funding.

The prevelance rate is 12-15x the reported positive rate for most viral antigen tests. So, it's probably closer to 35-40, million.

We need to double that rate for herd immunity.

The young snotty nose kids need to get it in school and pass it around. Then you bedwetters can stop.

Funny people can't accept infection without ill effect is good. It leads to herd immunity. The beginning of the end (of the scam).

Well, yeah, but the MSM won't let it go so as to continue the leftist agenda..

Blackbart is scared to death.

LOL

Pussy.

Big news. Better go back to bed.

That's right, you can't have beans without TP.

The CDC is an action pac of the Democrat Party. The response should be "what have they got wrong now"

But the death total remains the same 124,000 so if they thought there was 2.4 million affected, and it’s actually 24 million affected, the death rate us 10 times better!

Reuters is fake news just like CNN.

It so scawy out day.

LMFAO.

Death rate plummets with that news, and probably those numbers are even low. So, why are all these damn sheep still wearing masks, when they don't have the disease, can't spread the disease, can't catch the disease. And even if they did have it and were contagious, the chance of a mask limited the spread are about zero.

Such speculation is no big deal to those who are "woke" and thinking and, if the "maybe" eventually can be demonstrated as an accuracy, it will be downplayed by the media and those who have tried to use the China Flu as a political weapon. The higher the number of verified "cases", the lower the % of those who became seriously ill and the lower the death rate. Not news they want.