Research Study Finds COVID-19 Numbers Vastly Underestimated
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, March 19, 2021
This is some of the first proven and confirmed evidence that what we have been told by the experts is 100% accurate and true.
“Typhoid Mary” Mallon (1869-1938), was an impoverished, illiterate Irish emigrant to the United States who worked primarily as a cook, and who became infamous for spreading typhoid fever, which at the time was an incurable, easily-spread, often deadly disease, for which no vaccination existed.
People who DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE INFECTED ARE SPREADING THE DISEASE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE SYMPTOMS.
It is a REPEAT of the classic example first shown by “Typhoid Mary” Mallon (1869-1938), an Irish emigrant to the United States who worked as a cook (one of the highest paying jobs at the time), and was actively infected with typhoid fever, yet NEVER – NOT EVEN ONCE – showed any signs of infection.
Tragically, however, as was common in the era in which she lived, she had low education and was practically illiterate, and her refusal to heed the advice of experts, and her insistence upon working in kitchens, resulted in the deaths of many people whom she thereby infected with typhoid fever because of her deliberately wanton disregard of advice, and disobedience to the order of law. She, however, claimed that she was being persecuted for being Irish and poor.
Her case was the first, and a prime example of the dangers of ignoring sound expert medical and scientific advice. As well, her case demonstrated the differences in attitudes toward public health between now, and then, because she filed lawsuits against the governmental authorities that detained her, and forbade her from either working, or being in public, and quarantined her. At the time, there was no vaccine against typhoid.
And throughout the remainder of her life, and up to the time she died, she never – not even once – ever showed signs of typhoid fever infection. And she did not die of typhoid fever. She died of pneumonia 6 years after suffering a stroke.
For more information about Typhoid Mary, see:
The Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary
by Veronique Greenwood
March 2015
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-frightening-legacy-of-typhoid-mary-180954324/
Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim?
by Judith Leavitt
Monday, October 11, 2004
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/typhoid-mary-villain-or-victim/
The Strange Case of Typhoid Mary
by Emily Singer
August 31, 2016
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-typhoid-mary-never-got-sick-20160831
Who Was Typhoid Mary?
by Kiona N. Smith
September 22, 2017,04:10pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2017/09/22/who-was-typhoid-mary/
The Most Dangerous Woman In America
October 16, 2013
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/
Typhoid Mary’s Tragic Tale Exposed The Health Impacts Of ‘Super-Spreaders’
by Nina Strochlic
March 17, 2020
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/typhoid-mary-tragic-tale-exposed-health-impacts-super-spreaders
Awful Moments In Quarantine History: Remember Typhoid Mary?
by Eleanor Klibanoff
October 30, 2014, 5:38 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/30/360120406/awful-moments-in-quarantine-history-remember-typhoid-mary
Biography of Typhoid Mary, Who Spread Typhoid in Early 1900s
By Jennifer Rosenberg
Updated July 04, 2019
https://www.thoughtco.com/typhoid-mary-1779179
10 Things You May Not Know About ‘Typhoid Mary’
by Christopher Klein
Updated: August 22, 2018; Original: March 27, 2015
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-typhoid-mary
Typhoid Mary Was a Real, Asymptomatic Carrier Who Caused Multiple Outbreaks
by Bessie Yuill
July 2, 2020 4:08 PM
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/typhoid-mary-was-a-real-asymptomatic-carrier-who-caused-multiple-outbreaks
What Typhoid Mary’s Story Tells Us About COVID-19 Tensions
by Rund Abdelfatah, and Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and co-producer of Throughline
July 2, 2020, 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/02/886487212/what-typhoid-marys-story-tells-us-about-covid-19-tensions
UPI.com
Study: U.S. COVID-19 Cases Underestimated By Half, Antibody Testing Suggests
by Brian P. Dunleavy
March 16, 2021
March 16 (UPI) — Up to 16 million people in the United States may have had undiagnosed, asymptomatic COVID-19 as of September 2020 – twice as many as previously estimated – according to an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open.
See:
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in the US Adult Asymptomatic Population as of September 30, 2020
by Robert L. Stout, PhDSteven J. Rigatti, MD, March 16, 2021
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777502
The data showed that just under 7% of about 62,000 people in the United States with no symptoms of infection who were tested in the study had antibodies against the virus.
Antibodies are cells produced by the immune system to fight off infection, and their presence in blood suggests that people either are battling the virus or had been recently recently infected.
The nearly 16 million asymptomatic cases is more than twice the number of confirmed cases — about 7.5 million — reported in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the end of September.
“As of September, the scope of the pandemic was about double the number of reported cases,” study co-author Dr. Robert L. Stout, PhD told UPI in an email.
“The primary means of transmission of this virus is the asymptomatic population — the patient [who] is unaware of their infectious status and is therefore at risk of unknowing spreading the virus,” said Stout, Chief Scientific Officer and a researcher with Lenexa, Kansas-based Clinical Reference Laboratory, a company that specializes in health testing for life insurance applicants.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last March, public health officials and researchers have suggested that the number of cases and deaths linked with the virus, both in the United States and globally, may be undercounted.
That is due to the number of infected people who may experience no symptoms, which is believed to be up to 80% of those with the virus, experts say.
For the study, Dr. Stout and his colleagues tested 61,190 life insurance applicants for antibodies to the coronavirus in September, using blood samples collected as part of the application process.
None of the applicants reported having symptoms of COVID-19. However, researchers found that just under 4,100, or 6.7%, tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, and about 56% of them were male.
Most of those who tested positive for antibodies were in their late 30s or early 40s, which researchers say is a significant finding, given that younger people are believed to be at lower risk for serious illness, or symptoms, from COVID-19.
Researchers have continuously said that those people are most likely unknowingly driving spread of the virus.
“Quite simply… they think that everything is fine and continue to go about their normal activities,” Dr. Stout said.
“Some practice recommended CDC guidelines in public places while some may not,” he said.
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