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>There's a good chance that the active strains are more transmissible than we assume, and might become worse through natural selection

We actually have a very poor idea of what is going on the ground in most of the affected countries as the hospital system has effectively stopped admitting new patients. The CDC is using a correction factor of 2.5 (i.e. there are 2.5 case outside of the hospitals for every case in inside), but once you stop admitting new patients then you really have no idea how many infected people there are.




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