West Virginia's governor says he feels 'extremely unwell'

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5. All True

But without massive testing we'd have no idea what percent of the population is infected. That's an important piece of information for health care professionals and planners to have. Testing is more like taking a population sample. In all likelihood, COVID positives are probably under reporting actual infection rates. Similarly, COVID deaths are probably under-reported.

Our piecemeal health-care system is under a lot of strain from a disease that by and large doesn't have a high mortality rate. One can only imagine how quickly our society would collapse if this disease had a significantly higher death rate. Kind of makes me wonder how the Ancient and Medical societies managed as deadly plagues swept through them.