Why actual COVID-19 cases may be higher than reported 20 million figure
COVID-19 hit another unwelcome milestone on Tuesday morning as the number of COVID-19 infections hit 20,092,855 globally, according to the latest data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The virus has infected least 5,094,565 people in the U.S., the most of any country, followed by Brazil , India and Russia .
“A recent study from China that clearly and appropriately defined asymptomatic infections suggests that the proportion of infected people who never developed symptoms was 23%,” the World Health Organization said last month. “Multiple studies have shown that people infect others before they themselves became ill, which is supported by available viral shedding data. One study of transmission in Singapore reported that 6.4% of secondary cases resulted from pre-symptomatic transmission.
However, all studies on asymptomatic people have limitations, WHO added. “For example, some studies did not clearly describe how they followed up with persons who were asymptomatic at the time of testing to ascertain if they ever developed symptoms. Others defined ‘asymptomatic’ very narrowly as persons who never developed fever or respiratory symptoms, rather than as those who did not develop any symptoms at all.
Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a rollback of operations state-wide at restaurants as well as bars, zoos, wineries, museums, card rooms, and movie theatres. “This is in every county in the state of California, not just those on the watch list,” he said.
Yong said he has spoken to over 100 health experts since the pandemic began and sums up the U.S. mistakes thus: “A sluggish response by a government denuded of expertise allowed the coronavirus to gain a foothold,” compounded by “chronic underfunding of public health,” he said. “A bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared for the ensuing wave of sickness.
President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
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