1 in 150 Americans probably have the coronavirus 'right now,' says ex-FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb
have projected that the number of actual coronavirus infections is in actuality ten to 11.8 times higher than the number of confirmed cases, leading Gottlieb to estimate Friday that “we must have well over 700,000 actual infections a day.”
“The prevalence of actual infection in the country right now must be pretty high, it must be in the order of like one in 150, one in 175 people have the infection right now,” Gottlieb said, noting that when there were only 20,000 confirmed cases a day, “the conventional wisdom was the prevalence was one in 200 people.”as recently as last week, as Gottlieb estimated on July 1 that there were likely 400,000 to 500,000 actual infections each day.
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