A professor at Johns Hopkins University said as many as 500,000 Americans could be infected with the coronavirus right now, a number vastly higher than current estimates as health experts across the country struggle with an inability to test all suspected patients.
As Yahoo Finance reported, there are currently 135,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 across the world and more than 5,000 deaths. But Dr. Marty Makary, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that even his university’s own website, which is keeping the official count of cases in the United States, is vastly underestimating the impact.
“Don’t believe the numbers when you see, even on our Johns Hopkins website, that 1,600 Americans have the virus,” Makary said. “No, that means 1,600 got the test, tested positive. There are probably 25 to 50 people who have the virus for every one person who is confirmed.”
“I think we have between 50,000 and half a million cases right now walking around in the United States.”
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