Here's a quick wrap of the COVID-19 news and case numbers from each Australian jurisdiction from the past week.
The short answer is we don’t know how many cases are going unrecorded. Are we catching half of all cases? Thirty per cent? One in 10? It’s hard to know for sure.
Professor James McCaw, one of the leaders of the Doherty Institute team, says his team knows most cases are being missed each day, but they only have a fairly vague idea of what the case ascertainment actually is.with a lot of uncertainty," he says. If we do have a case ascertainment range of 10-25 per cent, that meant that last week, when there were about 107,000 cases reported, there were actually between
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