MORE than half of NYC is COVID infected

Posted byjbakerjrblogPosted inImmunity, Infection Rate

On Sunday I said half of NYC was COVID-19 infected. People thought that I was crazy. Looks like I was wrong; may be higher!

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavirus/index.page

Time to stop dismissing herd immunity as a potential force in suppressing the pandemic in some of these hotspots!

Published by jbakerjrblog

Immunologist, former Army MD, former head of allergy and clinical immunology at University of Michigan, vaccine developer and opinionated guy.

One thought on “MORE than half of NYC is COVID infected”

  1. This not a reliable way of estimating prevalence of infection as it is a non-random, biased sample. Furthermore, in NYC the rates of testing are higher for higher income zip codes.

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