They haven’t been testing everyone who has symptoms, so how do they know how many other people everyone is passing the virus to?
Is this statement based an assumption of the real figures based on those diagnosed in hospital?
I just don’t understand how they can be so sure of it when they don’t seem to have all the information they would need.
Even during lockdown, I’m thinking patterns of infection would be something like:
Person at work infects 2 colleagues
1 colleague lives alone and doesn’t infect anyone else.
Other colleague lives with wife and 2 kids, they all become infected.
So I’m imagining most infections still lead to more than one other?
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Kitchendoctor · 02/05/2020 13:25
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