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Originally Posted by ABDUKNUT
According to worldometer, Spain has tested 12% of its population. So, that leaves about 41 million people that could or could not have been exposed. Given that most people don’t get tested even when symptomatic, that leaves a huge margin for error in the tally of exposures.
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Spain may have tested 12 % of its population, but most of those were negative. They also understand that many that go to get tested are far more likely to have been possibly exposed (hence a larger positivity rate) than if you take a true random sampling of the entire country.