04-06-2020, 03:41 AM
What is the population size needed to do random sampling and achieve a result that can be extrapolated to the general population with accuracy?
Wouldn’t you basically need to go door to door in a given residential area to collect blood samples? I mean everyone were asked to go to testing locations in Los Altos, wouldn’t you get a non-random sample that has high risk factors for complications or thought to have reason to believe they might have been infected, making it non-random?
My greatest question remains how do we end stay at home orders and not just have another massive outbreak when they are lifted. I see no evidence any country has fully gone back to normal without restarting virus spread. So many unknowns still, that not even antibody testing can fully answer, but hopefully it does get us closer to understanding WTF is going on.
Wouldn’t you basically need to go door to door in a given residential area to collect blood samples? I mean everyone were asked to go to testing locations in Los Altos, wouldn’t you get a non-random sample that has high risk factors for complications or thought to have reason to believe they might have been infected, making it non-random?
My greatest question remains how do we end stay at home orders and not just have another massive outbreak when they are lifted. I see no evidence any country has fully gone back to normal without restarting virus spread. So many unknowns still, that not even antibody testing can fully answer, but hopefully it does get us closer to understanding WTF is going on.