@M.A.R. Are you pinging a different Rob?, I think your post is helpful - and received no ping, having not participated in the Q&A until a moment ago. If you want @RC you'll need to ping correctly.
@bjb568 Sanity check on that number: if there were 10 million symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 cases in the US during the week of March 15, then we'd expect to see a minimum of 200,000 deaths by April 7. Actual death toll as of April 7 was 12,000. Something doesn't add up here.
And, I found a mistake in the paper that completely invalidates it. From page 3: "changing patient behaviors causing higher rates of presentation for typical seasonal ILI could confound our estimates". In short, the paper's results are only valid if people with flu-like symptoms go to the doctor at the same rate both before and after the arrival of COVID-19.
@Mark It was last at 5.4% so for 10M the number would be 540K. CDC reports 395K, and World-o-meter says it's 435K; there's only 1.5M worldwide. A different report suggests half that number might be possible by month's end, worldwide.
Also, that website has a disclaimer that articles published there have not been subjected to peer review.
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Well OK, what I didn't seem to get from the blog was how many comments were going to be flagged in a certain time period
I'd try to be optimistic, but I have my suspicions that this "data team" comfortably threw complaints about SE Inc.'s behavior in a huge "other" category