coronumbers

[darkoshi]

Some local news outlets reported a "drop" in new SC COVID-19 cases today; the first time in 2 weeks that the daily number was under 1000. Yet the numbers also show many fewer test results were received today. So of course the number of new positives is also down. For the tests done, the percent positive was still very high, 20.7%.

Per The State newspaper:
South Carolina health officials estimated that as many as 86% of South Carolinians who contract COVID-19 go undiagnosed or untested, meaning they are not included in the counts released each day. On Tuesday, they estimated a total of 337,243 people have likely contracted the virus since March.

Given that SC's population is 5 million, that would be 6.7%. Probably less than half those people would still be currently sick and/or contagious. So maybe 3% would be contagious.