New @USC and @lapublichealth study suggests a coronavirus case fatality rate of .1 to .3 pic.twitter.com/th8Sld0ifl
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) April 20, 2020
Here’s the lede buried deep in the LA Times story: “0.1% to 0.2%, which is closer to the death rate associated with the seasonal flu.” Oops.
Via LA Times:
Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles County residents may have been infected with the coronavirus by early April, far outpacing the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report released Monday.
The initial results from the first large-scale study tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the county found that 4.1% of adults have antibodies to the virus in their blood, an indication of past exposure.
That translates to roughly 221,000 to 442,000 adults who have recovered from an infection, once margin of error is taken into account, according to the researchers conducting the study. The county had reported fewer than 8,000 cases at that time.