The proportion of children with COVID-positive blood samples was slightly lower in Pennsylvania (73.2%), New Jersey (72.5%), and Delaware (75.7%), but still well above official reported totals, said Craig Shapiro, an infectious diseases specialist at Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware. Even that figure could be an underestimate of cases dating to the beginning of the pandemic, as the levels of these telltale antibodies drop to undetectable levels in most people within a year. children, the CDC estimated that at least 57 million youths had been infected with the coronavirus by the end of June, four times the cumulative total of reported cases at that point. Among 26,725 blood samples collected in May and June, nearly 80% contained a type of antibody that the immune system produces only in response to infection - not in response to the vaccines.Īssuming that percentage holds true for all U.S. The evidence comes from the blood samples of children who had their blood drawn at commercial labs for non-COVID reasons, such as measuring levels of cholesterol or lead. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that among children, the true number is a lot higher. That means they can all point fingers at one another when there's a problem.Įditor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from Amazon stating the issue some users experienced has been resolved.With so many people using at-home COVID-19 tests, if they’re testing at all, experts acknowledged long ago that the true number of cases is higher than what is officially reported.
Our thought bubble: There are many layers to the technology infrastructure of streaming services - which means there are many potential points of failure when a platform is strained by heavy demand, Axios technology editors Scott Rosenberg and Peter Allen Clark write. We’ve worked with HBO to resolve it, and HBO has pushed out a fix resolving the issue," Amazon said in a statement late Monday. "There was an issue with the HBO Max app which affected a small number of users attempting to watch 'House of the Dragon' on a subset of Fire TV devices.
Why it matters: Downtime on series release days has become commonplace as people now spend more time streaming TV content than watching it through cable. Feverish interest in the first "Game of Thrones" spinoff "House of the Dragon" crashed the HBO Max app for thousands of people in the U.S.