Useful information #1 Despite the fact that 1.3% of the Danish population studied from 1/18 to 1/22 had a positive antibody test for SARS-CoV-2 (76,700 people) at most times, the maximum number of people hospitalized for COVID19 was 495, meaning that the infection was incredibly benign (495/76700 = .0065 an under 1% chance of hospitalization.
Useful information #2 If you were in a store using your credit card and someone else with a positive antibody test for the virus was in the same store also using a credit card and you both made the transactions within 5 minutes of each your risk of becoming positive increased by only 9% to 1.41%.
The data collection from the study ended 15 January 2022. Yet the paper [ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. vol. 121 e2320194121 ’24 ] wasn’t submitted until 21 months later 23 October 2023, was accepted 24 March 2024 and finally published 27 April 2024, a lag of 27 months after data collection was complete.
This information would have been ever so much more useful if we had it January or February of 2022 instead of now.
Creepy information #1 The government had information on who had a positive antibody test and when, and was able to link this with the supposedly private credit card information about when and where they used the card.
Big brother is watching you, in this case something I approve of.
