BREAKING: Of 408 homeless residents of Boston’s Pine Street Inn, 147 (36.0%) were PCR + for #coronavirus. Symptoms were not frequent: Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%) were all uncommon among COVID-positive individuals. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1

NPR reported last night that those testing positive were moved to a hospital that had closed in Brockton MA.

This data is applicable to a population residing in fairly dense living conditions at a single point in time.

BUT

It is striking how many were asymptomatic or had few symptoms and how widely spread the active infection was.

This adds further support to my opinion that #coronavirus has spread more widely and rapidly among asymptomatic patients than has been appreciated from the outset and that many more people have been infected than we think. Ab testing will confirm EVEN MORE recovered cases.