So, Wuhan has 3% with antibodies, but Lakewood has 80-90% according to one Hatzola EMT.
Cool story.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-starts-testing-to-determine-level-of-immunity-from-coronavirus-11587039175
Anecdotally I haven’t spoken to a single person under the age of 60 in Lakewood who hasn’t experienced symptoms in their household at some point since purim. And I’ve spoken to a lot of people. Several seniors I know who were good about isolating did not. Maybe Wuhan didn’t have the overwhelming exposure that purim (thousands attended BMG), tens of thousands of school kids and daycare, and 3 minyanim/ learning sedorum etc. provided the Lakewood community.
+1 Most people I have spoken to in LKWD have experienced symptoms not typical of the flu.
Who trusts china for even one second. Most western countries with Chinese tests reported them to be mostly faulty.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/coronavirus-antibody-test-uk.amp.htmlhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-01/faulty-virus-tests-cloud-china-s-european-outreach-over-covid-19https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/news/china-supplied-faulty-coronavirus-test-kits-to-spain-czech-republic/amp/Look at the actual facts and decide on your own.
Facts:
1] Lakewood NJ Covid 19 cases according to OCHD = 1278
2] Almost impossible to get tested [at least till recently]
3] Most people showing symptoms did not get tested, by a huge factor.
5] Kids dont usually show symptoms.
6] Young ppl have almost a 0% chance of getting tested.
According to the 2010 census
"In the township, the population age was spread out with 41.8% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 11.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older."
41.8% under 18 with mostly no symptoms.
10.3% under 24, most likely not tested
24.6% under 44 most likely not tested.
11.1% from 45 to 64 with many of this age group not getting tested.
75+ % of people cannot get tested.
Most people were exposed and showed symptoms around purim time when testing was even more scarce.
A big % of people possibly dont show symptoms at all.
Schools and shulls were open after purim for a few days.
Hatzalah speaking to Dr"s whom are reporting fielding 100's- 1000's of calls with ppl showing symptoms.
I know of 100's [literally] in lkwd showing/showed symptoms and of those, 4 were tested and they were positive.
Does it make sense for H to say 80-90% have had covid or have been extremely exposes? I think so.