this really changes the statistics conversation doesn't it?
Not really.
Quote from same article
“ "Many of the epidemiological features responsible for observed rates of morbidity and mortality have been reported; however, the overall burden and characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States have not been comprehensively quantified," the researchers said.”
Nothing has been comprehensively quantified.
it’s a guess like most of this fiasco.
They can’t comprehensively quantify almost any of it.
I bet somebody’s got some numbers though.
“The number of active COVID-19 cases in the United States is roughly ten times higher than the number of confirmed cases on any given day, according to a computer model by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists. Since the start of the pandemic, an estimated one-third of the U.S. population has already been infected, with numbers five times that of the official count.
Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, a professor of environmental health sciences known for his COVID-19 projections, led the research, based on case numbers and anonymized cellphone location data to estimate population mixing. The findings appear ahead of peer review in a report by NPR.”
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/active-covid-cases-may-be-ten-times-official-count-studyAnd does the shot hurt people who already had COVID ?