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Originally Posted by pmax
You will have to do better than that when we know for a fact that the "scientific community" is infested with political types.
Are you one ?
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Why isn't the USC/!LA County study being attacked? It shows nearly as high a rate.
They oversampled white women and under sampled Hispanics. They recruited via Facebook and an email from the wife of one of the trial doctors. They used Facebook because it was fast. Accuracy was not the reason.
" We used Facebook to quickly reach a large number of county residents and because it allows for granular targeting by zip code and sociodemographic characteristics"
You realize that the unadjusted prevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Santa Clara County was 1.5% (exact binomial 95CI 1.11-1.97%).
1.5% of the population of the trial tested positive. Hardly herd immunity territory.
After accounting for their crappy study set up they nearly doubled the % of positive to 2.81%
They are not being attack because of their high rate of past infection. They are being attacked because of a pizz poor set up of a study. USC with their similar results is not being attacked at the current time.
Actual study pdf can be found here.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1