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VolsDoc81TX said:
My response would be that people generally don’t get tested for viruses when they’re asymptomatic. The coronavirus pandemic has been a totally different creature. If you have no flu symptoms would you be tested for it? Of course not.

I think an interesting medical study would be to test large amounts of essentially asymptomatic people who have been exposed to the influenza virus next year or even this coming year during flu season. It might put a lot of this in the perspective. I cannot think of a time when so many people of been tested for something regardless of symptoms.
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The testing with no symptoms is a problem
 
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Helton1 said:
There are many theories that due to COVID being a coronavirus and everyone having had coronavirus in their life, a large % of the population has natural immunity. I’m very much on this train of thought. It explains the cruise ships having so much exposure, and a relatively small % testing positive.
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That theory is also being used to explain false positives in testing. So your theory could be slightly sound. If anything it probably provides some protection to low levels of exposure.
 
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I’ve been there a couple times. The first time, we were headed back to the airport, and passed by a statue of a moose. That’s when it hit me that I hadn’t seen a single animal besides a bird. I asked why that was, and got a pretty chilling response. “We ate them all.”
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
My response would be that people generally don’t get tested for viruses when they’re asymptomatic. The coronavirus pandemic has been a totally different creature. If you have no flu symptoms would you be tested for it? Of course not.

I think an interesting medical study would be to test large amounts of essentially asymptomatic people who have been exposed to the influenza virus next year or even this coming year during flu season. It might put a lot of this in the perspective. I cannot think of a time when so many people of been tested for something regardless of symptoms.
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As I understand it a lot of people DO have “natural immunity” to Covid. It’s been said most of us have been exposed to a number of different coronaviruses over the course of our lives. Studies have suggested that many times the number of reported Covid-19 cases already exist or have existed in the country since this started. Different people have different responses to the virus. I think I’ve posted before that over the course of my life I’ve almost never gotten sick, not the flu, not a cold, nothing. Obviously, working in corporate offices and socializing, I’ve been around people who have symptoms of seasonal viruses but if I’ve ever pick it up I’ve been asymptomatic. I’ve been fortunate.

From June 25:

The true number of Americans who've been infected with COVID-19 may top 20 million, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported, there actually are 10 other infections," Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, said on a call with reporters Thursday.
The assessment comes from looking at blood samples across the country for the presence of antibodies to the virus. For every confirmed case of COVID-19, 10 more people had antibodies, Redfield said, referring to proteins in the blood that indicate whether a person's immune system has previously fought off the coronavirus.

Those samples aren't just from people who have had antibody testing. They also come from testing performed on donated blood at blood banks or from other laboratory testing of blood.
Currently, there are 2.3 million COVID-19 cases reported in the U.S. The CDC's new estimate pushes the actual number of coronavirus cases up to at least 23 million.
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CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported
 
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