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Piece in the Merc about the study:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/20/f...n-apology/

The good news is that apparently more detail about the methods will be forthcoming.  And also, the paper notes that a bunch of other groups are doing similar studies, so we will have a better sense of what is happening.

In the end, no single study is going to answer the question of how prevalent COVID-19 is in our communities, scientists said.  More studies with different technologies and analytic approaches are needed.
That’s coming. A UC Berkeley project, which will begin in May, will test a large and representative swath of 5,000 East Bay residents. Scientists will take saliva, swab and blood samples from volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60 around the region.
Starting Monday, UC San Francisco and a privately-funded operation will test all 1,680 residents of rural Bolinas for evidence of the virus. UCSF will launch a similar effort Saturday in San Francisco’s densely populated and largely Latino Mission District, where it hopes to test 5,700 people.
Results are expected soon from seroprevalence surveys run by other groups around the world, including teams in China, Australia, Iceland, Italy and Germany.

BC

[BostonCard]

Piece in the Merc about the study:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/20/f...n-apology/

The good news is that apparently more detail about the methods will be forthcoming.  And also, the paper notes that a bunch of other groups are doing similar studies, so we will have a better sense of what is happening.

In the end, no single study is going to answer the question of how prevalent COVID-19 is in our communities, scientists said.  More studies with different technologies and analytic approaches are needed.
That’s coming. A UC Berkeley project, which will begin in May, will test a large and representative swath of 5,000 East Bay residents. Scientists will take saliva, swab and blood samples from volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60 around the region.
Starting Monday, UC San Francisco and a privately-funded operation will test all 1,680 residents of rural Bolinas for evidence of the virus. UCSF will launch a similar effort Saturday in San Francisco’s densely populated and largely Latino Mission District, where it hopes to test 5,700 people.
Results are expected soon from seroprevalence surveys run by other groups around the world, including teams in China, Australia, Iceland, Italy and Germany.

BC