Study: Antibodies shows 50-85 times as many people in California county have had the disease than confirmed cases

The unvarnished good news in every report of millions of hidden infections is that it means the fatality rate is much less than feared. The case fatality rate right now in the U.S. is 4.6 percent, a number no one takes seriously. If 50 times as many Americans are infected than we know right now, the true number of cases would swell to 33 million and the fatality rate would drop to flu levels, around 0.1 percent. That s the good news.

The bad news is that multiplying the known cases by 50 would mean that just 10 percent or so of the total population has been infected, and that 10 percent has cost us 30,000 deaths so far. If we need to get to, say, 60 percent being infected in order to enjoy herd immunity, that would mean we should expect 180,000 dead before transmission rates decline and the epidemic tails off. Which happens to be right in the range of deaths predicted by the White House model.

via hotair.com