The researchers said the percentage of New York City-area residents with Covid-19 antibodies 'is well below the estimated 67% needed to achieve community immunity.'
About 25% of New York City-area residents have probably been infected with the coronavirus by now, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Tuesday., which suggested that 19.3% of people in the city have already been exposed to the virus through April 19.
"If you probably took that out to now, you did a seroprevalence study now, you'd probably see that the infection-fatality rate's a little higher because more people succumbed to the infection over the course of time from April to now," he said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "And you'd probably see that the seroprevalence is a little higher because more people have gotten infected, so my guess is probably around 25% of New York has now been infected with Covid.
"We can start to believe that this probably represents an approximation of what the real result is," he said.
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