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Old 03-16-2020, 12:45 AM
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I'm certainly no scientist but I'd love to get an answer to this question from one ... if this is so much worse than the flu because the death to infection rate ratio is so much higher, how do they know how many people are infected If hardly anyone is getting tested ????? Some say the infected numbers could already be huge,which would bring the ratio way down.
Yes that is a very important question and has been on everyone's mind for quite some time. Due to the fact that we are not getting enough test kits into the hands of qualified people which has been a very sore point.

Here in N.M. they opened the first drive-thru test center in ABQ. But Santa Fe which has a few cases has no public testing center. Tri-Core, one of our biggest labs says they are all set for testing. So send in the tests . . . and all they have is silence . . . until today. We only have 19 positive cases in NM. No deaths.

All we can go on is the world wide stats that say 150,000 infected with 5000 deaths. And I am not even sure that is up to date.
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