A preliminary study of 3,000 New Yorkers found that 13.9% tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
The revelation provides further evidence that the coronavirus spread earlier and infected more people than official tallies show.
"It tells us this virus is much more widespread than we thought. When we look at the models that are using hospitalization rates and case fatality ratios, that those are likely overestimating because they're based on skewed data," he said."The hospitalization rate may be much lower because the denominator is so much bigger.
In Indiana, too, officials are tracking cases going back to at least mid-February --- weeks before the state announced its first case in early March. If those rates hold for the state's 19.5 million people and the city's 8.4 million people, then about 2.7 million people in the state and about 1.8 million people in the city had the virus -- numbers that are multiple times higher than the official state counts.The pandemic has hit the US especially hard, leading to stay-home orders in more than 40 states. The decision to reopen even as coronavirus deaths linger is pitting governors against mayors in some of the largest cities.
In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp made the most aggressive move yet to get the state's economy humming by allowing businesses such as barbershops, nail salons, bowling alleys and gyms to reopen Friday. "When you should go back to business is when you have some true indicators over two weeks that show a deceleration of the pandemic," Benjamin said, referring to one of the White House's criteria for reopening state economies."We need more testing. We need more data, and then we can decide how we go back into business."
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