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Video: What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means

  • Written by Melissa Hawkins, Professor of Public Health, Director of Public Health Scholars Program, American University
imageHealth care workers use a nasal swab to test a person for COVID-19 in Pembroke Park, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images News

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true number of people infected by COVID-19 could be six to 24 times higher than the...

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