CoronaVirus ==> Empty Shelves

[Beardy]

Yes if we didn’t have the Ruby balls up the numbers would be even more impressive.

It still amazes me that that happened

[doug3030]

Yes if we didn’t have the Ruby balls up the numbers would be even more impressive.

It still amazes me that that happened

Yes, we could have been far better off if Ruby Princess did not happen at all, but it could have been far more devastating. The measures put in place to mitigate the error worked well but I think we were lucky all the same.

[BobL]

I just heard a health authority person from LA on NPR describing how a recent random set of COVID19 antibody tests in LA found that 1 in ~40 Angelingos have been infected.
This translates to ~8 million people across the US being infected (and that was about 2 weeks ago), compared to current testing which shows about 790,000 positives, ie 10 times more people are infected than are being detected.

This factor depends on how far advanced COVID19 has progressed in the community and how many tests have been. For countries like Oz and NZ it's thought to be much less than a factor 10 but until extensive testing is undertaken we won't know.