Ohio’s Top Health Official Says “We Believe 100,000 People” Already Infected With Covid-19 In State
- Ohio’s Top Health Official Says “We Believe 100,000 People” Already Infected With Covid-19 In State
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Ohio’s top public-health official said during a press conference on Thursday where the state’s governor announced a three-week closure of all schools in the state that her office estimates that as many as 117,000 people in the state have already been infected with the novel coronavirus.
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During the press conference, a clip from which we’ve included below, Department of Health Director Amy Acton said that the virus has likely been spreading in the “community” of Ohio, and that, given the number of weeks it has likely been present, at least 1% of the state’s population likely already have the virus.
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“We know now based on the basic facts of community spread we know now that at the very least 1% of our population is carrying this virus…We have 11.7 million people, so that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads, and how it’s spreading quickly,” Acton said.
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