Progressives (Liberals)

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One third of participants in Massachusetts study tested positive for coronavirus

The Mass. General study took samples from 200 residents on the street in Chelsea, MA. Participants remained anonymous and provided a drop of blood to researchers, who were able to produce a result in ten minutes with a rapid test.

Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager. “We've long thought that the reported numbers are vastly under-counting what the actual infection is," Ambrosino told the Boston Globe.

Massachusetts is currently the third-most infected state in the country, with around 34,400 confirmed cases and 1,400 deaths.

Ambrosino called Chelsea the epicenter of the crisis in Massachusetts. Chelsea has the state’s highest rate of confirmed cases, with at least 712 confirmed cases and 39 deaths – an infection rate of around 2 percent.

He added: “Still, it's kind of sobering that 30 percent of a random group of 200 people that are showing no symptoms are, in fact, infected.

Top coronavirus model significantly lowers total estimates of US deaths in new projection

The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) lowered its projection of total deaths to just over 60,308 in an update published Friday.

The projection is significantly lower than prior estimates from the IHME, which last month was predicting 84,000 deaths from the virus.

The new numbers will fuel critics of the lockdown strategy taken by governors and local officials, who say the aggressive shut down of daily life across America was based on projections by models that turned out not to align with reality.

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has become a top voice in those pushing back against the lockdown strategy, has argued that the models have social distancing baked in to them, so that cannot be tagged for the reason why the projections are being lowered.

“Now we’re in a bad spot because there’s clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now -- the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there’s going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say 'oh it's the lockdown that saved us.'”

“That the IHME model keeps changing is evidence of its lack of reliability as a predictive tool,” epidemiologist Ruth Etzioni of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, who has served on a search committee for IHME, said according to Stat News. “That it is being used for policy decisions and its results interpreted wrongly is a travesty unfolding before our eyes.”

Il y a déjà plus de 50 ans que j'attendais français à l'école. Et cela a suffi pour les visites en France jusqu'à présent.

...that's what I thought.

cops tend to be republican, you do know that.