Evidence emerges that more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests. State finds 13.9% had antibodies suggesting exposure. Experts say exposure is not necessarily proof of immunity, however.
A medical worker walks past people lined up at Gotham Health East New York, a COVID-19 testing center Thursday, April 23, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
In New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., 21% of the people tested had antibodies. “We’ll have a larger and larger sample. But I want to see snapshots of what is happening with that rate. Is it going up, is it flat, is it down? And it can really give us data to make decisions,” Cuomo said.
She noted the city is still telling people who suspect they have the virus but aren’t seriously ill that they don’t need to seek a test, so the true number of sick people is unknown. More than 15,000 people remain hospitalized statewide, with nearly 1,400 new patients admitted each day over the past few days.
But such tests need to be done with random sampling, ensuring that the people being tested are representative of geographic, social, racial and other conditions. There are also questions about the accuracy of the blood tests being used. Scientists have found that some of them aren’t reliable enough, with too many false positives and false negatives.
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