Around a third of participants in a Massachusetts study tested positive for coronavirus, according to researchers.
The Mass. General study took samples from 200 residents on the street in Chelsea, MA. Participants remained anonymous and provided a drop of blood to researchers, who were able to produce a result in ten minutes with a rapid test.
Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager.
“We've long thought that the reported numbers are vastly under-counting what the actual infection is," Ambrosino told the Boston Globe. “Those reported numbers are based on positive COVID-19 tests, and we're all aware that a very, very small percentage of people in Chelsea and everywhere are getting COVID-19 tests."
He added: “Still, it's kind of sobering that 30 percent of a random group of 200 people that are showing no symptoms are, in fact, infected. It's all the more reason for everyone to be practicing physical distancing."
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5 comments:
So it's no big deal? We can all go back to work?
A blood test with 10 min. result? Why aren't they doing them everywhere?
64 people are positive and the town manager is doing nothing about it? Why not contact information? This is a pandemic national security is at risk and don’t even have a email? I call bs on this story. Not adding up.
Tje more test they get, the more we will see this. It is unimaginable how many people will have this.
And there rushing to re open watch this backfire.
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