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re: Dr. Dan Erickson of Bakersfield, CA Has Tested 5K+ People For Covid 19

Posted on 4/25/20 at 4:22 pm to
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 4/25/20 at 4:22 pm to
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These are the 2 guys that tested 5,000 people that came to their urgent cares and found 19% have COVID. They then used this number to say 19% of the entire country has COVID. Sorry, that’s not how it works. Those people came in because they were
5k is more people than some of the polls that get posted
Posted by WaWaWeeWa
Member since Oct 2015
15714 posts
Posted on 4/25/20 at 4:25 pm to
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5k is more people than some of the polls that get posted


He’s not talking about antibody tests.

This is the nasal swab they have been doing for months and no 5k is nothing for the nasal swab active infection test.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
34457 posts
Posted on 4/25/20 at 4:42 pm to
Statistically speaking he’s right. You can’t extrapolate that data over the whole country because it’s not truly random.

The polls are shite too
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