Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless *

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Here's an attempt at estimating the true infection rate in NYC. Same math can be applied elsewhere. (e.g.,Chicago is at 5%)

https://medium.com/@FasinFoxtrot/stay-the-f-home-d43ffea8b4

Did you read the article?

The link you posted is likely in the class of meaningless studies for Nate's piece because you didn't account for the nonrandom testing that is going on

I did, and I read the linked to papers like https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/severity/global_cfr_e.... The medium piece uses deaths, not cases, to drive the estimate

Which is even further removed from the answer

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