Interesting piece but I suspect main finding more correlative than causative. Research has found population spread in Wuhan likely at least 10x greater than confirmed and suspected cases. This matches what is being found in other countries. 1/n wsj.com/articles/the-w…
This matters ENORMOUSLY because if you think you are tracing the right cases but you only capture 10% of transmitters, you'll never stop the spread. Consequently, quarantining recognized cases is effectively a dead end. The article even clues us in this is what is happening 2/n
"He also said that in recent days he saw a handful of patients who had developed antibodies to the virus without knowingly being infected. That suggested to him that Wuhan might have already developed a level of “herd immunity.”" You aren't getting herd immunity unless big spread
