CNN: Confirmed case don;t show total burden from COVID
Sept 10, 2020 8:38:20 GMT
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Post by lookingforatenbagger on Sept 10, 2020 8:38:20 GMT
Vinniyo posted this link in the shout box and I thought it deserved a thread.
Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US don't show the 'total burden of the pandemic,' study says
By Theresa Waldrop, Maggie Fox and Nicole Chavez, CNN
, Updated 10:13 PM ET, Wed September 9, 2020
www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
This caught my eye as something everyone seems to know, but few take the next logical step. If the actual number of cases is 9 times higher than the death rate is actually 1/9 of the reported rate.
"The report, published in the journal Nature Communications, says the US may have experienced over 6.4 million cases of Covid-19 by April 18. At the time, there were 721, 245 confirmed cases, the researchers said.
As of Wednesday, more than 6.3 million coronavirus cases have been reported and 190,763 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"We know that in the US, earlier on in the epidemic, the people who were getting tested had moderate to severe symptoms," said Jade Benjamin-Chung, one of the study's co-authors and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Berkeley Public Health. "And we know that since then, we have a larger number of asymptomatic people who are affecting the total number of infections but may not be included in confirmed case counts."
The other point is on vaccine development:
"The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could have its candidate ready for regulatory approval by mid-October, Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
"It has an excellent profile and I consider this vaccine ... near perfect, and which has a near perfect profile," Sahin said.
Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to provide 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate, BNT162, by the end of the year, and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
Moderna's Phase 3 trial started more than a month ago, on July 27. The US government has a deal with Moderna for the company to deliver 100 million doses once the vaccine is approved."
Perhaps this is the reason Pfizer has not been pursuing Somatrogon as quickly as we would like?
Confirmed coronavirus cases in the US don't show the 'total burden of the pandemic,' study says
By Theresa Waldrop, Maggie Fox and Nicole Chavez, CNN
, Updated 10:13 PM ET, Wed September 9, 2020
www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
This caught my eye as something everyone seems to know, but few take the next logical step. If the actual number of cases is 9 times higher than the death rate is actually 1/9 of the reported rate.
"The report, published in the journal Nature Communications, says the US may have experienced over 6.4 million cases of Covid-19 by April 18. At the time, there were 721, 245 confirmed cases, the researchers said.
As of Wednesday, more than 6.3 million coronavirus cases have been reported and 190,763 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"We know that in the US, earlier on in the epidemic, the people who were getting tested had moderate to severe symptoms," said Jade Benjamin-Chung, one of the study's co-authors and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Berkeley Public Health. "And we know that since then, we have a larger number of asymptomatic people who are affecting the total number of infections but may not be included in confirmed case counts."
The other point is on vaccine development:
"The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could have its candidate ready for regulatory approval by mid-October, Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
"It has an excellent profile and I consider this vaccine ... near perfect, and which has a near perfect profile," Sahin said.
Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to provide 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate, BNT162, by the end of the year, and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
Moderna's Phase 3 trial started more than a month ago, on July 27. The US government has a deal with Moderna for the company to deliver 100 million doses once the vaccine is approved."
Perhaps this is the reason Pfizer has not been pursuing Somatrogon as quickly as we would like?