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04/17/20 3:53 PM

#231083 RE: biocqr #231077

Large scale testing in CA reveal infection totals are 50-80 fold higher than reported...

Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/antibody-research-coronavirus-widespread/story?id=70206121

Based on the initial data, researchers estimate that the range of people who may have had the virus to be between 48,000 and 81,000 in the county of 2 million -- as opposed to the approximately 1,000 in the county's official tally at the time the samples were taken.

Our findings suggest that there is somewhere between 50- and 80-fold more infections in our county than what’s known by the number of cases than are reported by our department of public health," Dr. Eran Bendavid, the associate professor of medicine at Stanford University who led the study, said in an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer.