New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said a preliminary survey found that nearly 14% tested positive for antibodies against the coronavirus, suggesting that as many as 2.7 million New Yorkers may have been infected with the disease
While noting the small sample size of 3,000 people and other limitations of the survey, Cuomo said the implied fatality rate of 0.5% of those infected was lower than some experts feared.
As of Thursday, New York had 263,460 confirmed cases and a death toll of 15,740, according the state’s official count, or nearly 6% of those who tested positive for the coronavirus. A man talks on the phone outside of a shuttered Yankee Stadium during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., April 21, 2020. Picture taken April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
“I want to see snapshots of what is happening with that rate – is it going up, is it flat, is it going down,” Cuomo told a daily briefing. “It can really give us data to make decisions.” Stephen Hawes, chair of the University of Washington’s department of epidemiology, said he believed it was likely that New York’s survey was overestimating the infection rate somewhat by targeting people moving around in society.
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