[jonbxx]

Let's have some positive news....

Heinsberg in western Germany got slammed a while back after the virus spread through the population attending Carnival. Things got so bad that Heinsberg was referred to as 'Europes Wuhan'.

Scientists from the University of Bonn have revisited Heinsberg and tested 1000 random people using an antibody test which shows if you had the virus or not. The preliminary results have just come out showing an infection rate of 14% which suggests that a lot of people get the virus and don't know it. This is ten times higher than was expected from the hospital cases. This also pushes the mortality down to 0.37%.

This is great news if (and it's a big if) people are immune after infection. If a significant portion of the population are already immune then the size of the expected second spike after restrictions start to be lifted may be smaller.

Obviously this is preliminary data but it does push the case for community testing

Mr B and myself are wondering if we did get a mild case a couple of weeks ago as we had tightness in our chests and felt generally run down. My youngest and I both lost our sense of taste (in our mouths, not sartorially)