A new report estimates at least 8.7 million people were infected in the U.S., calling for more testing.
The researchers then excluded people who were eventually confirmed to have flu.
Study co-author Justin Silverman, MD, PhD, assistant professor of information science and technology at Penn State University, cautions that the data about infection rates needs to be verified yet by other methods, such as testing blood samples and taking swabs. "I would like to see 100 random people in each state on each day" tested, he says, both with swabs andRuiyun Li, PhD, a research associate at the Imperial College London, who has studied undocumented COVID-19 infections, agreed that the findings stress the need for more testing."The finding is important as it indicates the urgent need to improve the testing and detection capability – the more we test, the more cases could be confirmed," Li says.
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