Someone sent me a link to what appears to be the only posted copy of the technical report for the LA county serosurvey. It is hosted on the hottest new preprint server in town, redstate.com.
What is going on?
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A narrative is being developed to underplay the severity of the coronavirus to promote the "reopening" of the economy sans social distancing measures.
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Folks. Every single study here and abroad is heading in the same direction. If this was an outlier... & crew put this table together minus the 2 CA studies:
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Unfortunately, it's become a political hot potato. There are a lot of people invested in an outcome one way or another for understandable reasons. (Some sold the pandemic high, some sold it low) I'm guessing the guys at redstate pursued it more aggressively than other cohorts.
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Fascinating. And sigh. I can't retweet this until I know the validity of this linked document.
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Well, that is a stretch. LA county public health department is conservative? Haha.
"Though the results indicate a lower risk of death among those with infection than was previously thought...” Dr. Paul Simon, CSO at LA Department of Public Health and co-lead on the study.
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Thanks for pointing to the pre-print. Appears to be much better randomized sampling and adjusting for age, ethnicity and income. TL;DR: Weighted prevalence of antibodies 5.23%, '35x to 68x times higher' than county-reported numbers of confirmed infected.
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