Let's accept what you say. So what?In this case, we truly don't know it at all. It isn't like, "Oh, we may be off by 3 or 4%." We have absolutely no idea because there's a known systematic bias and almost no actual randomized test data. Get THAT data and there's something to talk about.
Referring to "detections" as "cases" is absolutely wrong and yet it keeps being repeated again and again.
Does it mean there are no cases? Does it mean there are no deaths? Does it matter in practical terms if the fatality rate is actually 0.5% (330 million * 80% * 0.5% = 1.3 million untimely deaths in the US alone), or maybe it's 0.1% = 260,000 deaths? (Note: if we believe New York actually has a 14% infection rate as reported this week the mortality rate would be 0.7%).
So, what does it mean to you if the denominator is off by a factor of 10 or 20?
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