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Originally Posted by island911 View Post
Hold on...

Per the article "They also discovered that 1,600 people have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak."
and
"10 per cent of the 364,413 population swabbed"

So let's linearly extrapolate that 1600 10x So say 16k have it in a population of 364k

That makes for 4.3% of their population having the rona. (not 50%)

The Headline does what headlines mean to do; Mislead.

The real story is that 50% of those who have it don't know it.

Thanks for the post and link anyway. There is some good info there.

edit: rough (first order) math on my part, I know. (4.3% is higher than refined math)
It is not 5%. Currently it is 5000 cases per million which is .5%.

Edit, I see where you got the 5%.

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