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2020-04-19 Science & Technology
Some good coronavirus news
[RedState] This past week, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers took to the streets of Chelsea for a Wuhan flu experiment: They asked passersby to take a blood test which identifies coronavirus antibodies.

The (limited) study found that one-third of participants tested positive.

Of 200 who had their fingers pricked on April 17th and 18th, 64 folks’ immune systems contained the antibodies — which means they’d contracted the virus.

As reported by The Boston Globe, “The 200 participants generally appeared healthy, but about half told the doctors they had had at least one symptom of COVID-19 in the past four weeks.”

Of course, the test results say nothing of numbers nationally. Experts were already aware that Chelsea had the state’s highest rate of confirmed cases.

Minimally, 39 Chelsea residents have died from the virus, and as of Tuesday, there’d been 712 confirmed cases.

That’s about 1,900 contractions per 100,000 people — nearly 2%.

To be clear, the test in Bellingham Square excluded any who’d previously tested positive via the conventional nasal swab test.
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