REPORT: One third of study participants test positive for coronavirus, indicating ‘raging epidemic’ in US city

APRIL 18, 2020

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Around a third of participants in a Massachusetts study tested positive for coronavirus, according to researchers.

Around a third of participants in a Massachusetts study tested positive The Mass. General study took samples from 200 residents on the street in Chelsea, MA. Participants remained anonymous and provided a drop of blood to researchers, who were able to produce a result in ten minutes with a rapid test. coronavirus, according to researchers.

The article goes on to state the following:

Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager.

“I think it’s both good news and bad news,” said Dr. John Iafrate, vice chairman of MGH’s pathology department and the study’s principal investigator, The Boston Globe reports. “The bad news is that there’s a raging epidemic in Chelsea, and many people walking on the street don’t know that they’re carrying the virus and that they may be exposing uninfected individuals in their families.”

“On the good-news side, it suggests that Chelsea has made its way through a good part of the epidemic,” he said. “They’re probably further along than other towns.”

According to the Globe, scientists believe people who have recovered from COVID-19 may be immune from catching it again, though immunity may only be temporary.

“Several biotechs and academic laboratories, in fact, are seeking blood donations from people who have recovered, in the hopes that their antibodies can help create a treatment or vaccine,” the Globe reports.

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson tweeted, “In the working-class Massachusetts town of Chelsea, 32 percent of the population tested positive for viral antibodies (!) – meaning they have already been infected and recovered – 16 times the rate known to be infected. This is a huge figure, beginning to approach herd immunity. Chelsea is much more like New York City than a lot of other American towns and suburbs – densely packed – and this kind of number could be a precursor if what NYC antibody testing would show.”


Josh Marshall, the founder of Talking Point Memo, tweeted, “Researchers from Mass General did pinprick serology tests of 200 people on the street in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a very hard hit town. 30% were positive for COVID19. Lotsa caveats abt the test, manner of sampling, etc. but pretty startling number.”

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