1 in 5 New York City Residents Infected With CCP Virus, Antibody Testing Shows

[Right_in_Virginia]

1 in 5 New York City Residents Infected With CCP Virus, Antibody Testing Shows
Epoch Times, Apr 23, 2020

Preliminary results from antibody testing in New York state found a 13.9 percent infection rate, officials announced Thursday, suggesting 2.7 million in the state have been infected by the CCP virus.

People who test positive are believed to have had the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, in the past. Some patients with virus never show symptoms and have no idea they were infected. Experts believe past infection could make people immune to the virus, though that theory has not been confirmed.

Preliminary results from 3,000 tests carried out across 19 New York counties found 13.9 percent of those tested have antibodies against COVID-19. But that figure climbed to 21.2 percent in New York City and dropped to 3.6 percent in counties outside the city, Long Island, and Westchester and Rockland counties.

The percent positive on Long Island was 16.7 percent and 11.7 percent in Westchester and Rockland counties combined.

Forty three percent of those tested were in New York City, 14.4 percent were on Long Island, 9.8 percent were in Westchester and Rockland counties, and 32.8 percent of them were in the rest of the state.

If the infection rate is 13.9 percent, then it changes the theories of what the death rate is if you get infected, Cuomo told reporters in Albany.

Extrapolating the results would mean 2.7 million people in the state have been infected with the CCP virus, a novel coronavirus that emerged from mainland China last year. With about 15,500 current fatalities linked to COVID-19 in New York, the death rate, or mortality rate, would be 0.5 percent.


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[Right_in_Virginia]

Extrapolating the results would mean 2.7 million people in the state have been infected with the CCP virus

You're getting damn close to herd immunity, Andy.  Start working hard on those reopen plans---and stave off filing bankruptcy.

[aligncare]

I’m pretty certain my wife and I got it in early February. She works at a nursing home where many residents had covid and succumbed to respiratory distress or complications of pre existing conditions. Also, two aides in their 50’s died.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I’m pretty certain my wife and I got it in early February. She works at a nursing home where many residents had covid and succumbed to respiratory distress or complications of pre existing conditions. Also, two aides in their 50’s died.

Interesting you should mention February @aligncare  Toward the end of February I had what I called at the time "what the hell is this?".  It came out of the blue, no usual warning signs that the flu or a cold is approaching -- no sore throat, no sneezing.  Out of the blue I was hit with just a fever and dry cough that went on around the clock for three, maybe four days.  And exhaustion .. I can't remember sleeping so much (until the lockdown ).

Then just as quickly as it started, it ended.  Poof--gone.   

I'm glad you and the Mrs. are okay.