CDC estimates head US coronavirus cases could be 10 times higher than that of the View Data

In a press conference on June 25, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease, said that the current official count of COVID-19 cases in the United States actually be a drastic understatement. Redfield said the new, many higher estimate is based on test data growth for antibodies that collects the presence of immune system cells, SARS-CoV-2, the virus react, causing COVID-19 The people will the positive test for antibodies to the virus, whether they were infected or not, has been that they ever get sick or even developed symptoms. So far, the test focused only on those with symptoms. But why so many who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 could or has a mild disease and do not know that never were infected, Redfield said additional information on the case load is underestimated. “The traditional research approach for the symptomatic disease, and diagnosis, of course, between the estimated total number of infections,” said Redfield. “Now that the antibody serology tests available that estimates are now about 10 times more people tested antibodies in countries like had to show documented infections.” This fact can to the recent trend in the average age of the population will contribute downward diagnosed because, as Redfield said, these people were probably not diagnosed in the past people younger people are less likely to experience severe symptoms that lead to the attention of the system health, where the first cases were documented. Now that the test is more widespread in the community, it is increasingly clear that more and more people who are currently infected or produced from COVID-19, than previously thought. Press the call was announced by the CDC also make changes to the definitions of people at high risk of COVID-19; now it includes those with asthma, dementia and a history of stroke, as well as people who are pregnant. The absolute risk of infection for these groups is still low, but noteworthy than that without these conditions the risk is. Based on new data, the list of underlying medical conditions updated people more susceptible to COVID-19 until the CDC today are obesity and type 2 diabetes could do, both conditions that are common in the US population, also the youngest.
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