It shows how many have the antibodies. But how many fought it off without the need for new antibodies, and how many Spanish are susceptible to the virus in the first place? I am getting the impression from this crisis that the science of immunity is still rather young. Fair?
Spanish flu was less transmissible and spread to every town and city in the world 100 years ago when there was far less international travel and far less local mobility.
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It seems to me there is a chance the new coronavirus has spread around the world infecting some people symptomatically, others asymptomatically, and bouncing off others as it were.
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No. The only places where it's shown up in large numbers have had massive deaths accompanying it; there's no where on Earth with lots of COVID and no deaths. People are mentally modeling this wrong b/c they don't understand exponential growth - slow and steady then explodes
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It seems like it might be too late with this virus, but there is a possibility it's contained and burns out before it reaches more remote populations
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"We" couldn't test and isolate 10 or 100 cases; testing and isolating 20,000 cases is millions of times more difficult.
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