I highly doubt it is like the graphic the story is telling. I wrote a paper about a month or two out on the seroprevalence of antibodies and the new T-cell test that was deployed with a pretty sizable sample across the country. I high doubt the R0 value for transmission could jump that high with the level of Herd immunity they have established. Defies everything we know about public health and infectious disease. There are just too many variables at play though now to take anything like that graphic seriously. It could very well be an increase in the test being deployed or a raise in the cycle threshold being used for their PCR test. So I will say it is highly unlikely although in the lack of information and research right now its hard to definitively rule anything out.
I highly doubt it is like the graphic the story is telling. I wrote a paper about a month or two out on the seroprevalence of antibodies and the new T-cell test that was deployed with a pretty sizable sample across the country. I high doubt the R0 value for transmission could jump that high with the level of Herd immunity they have established. Defies everything we know about public health and infectious disease. There are just too many variables at play though now to take anything like that graphic seriously. It could very well be an increase in the test being deployed or a raise in the cycle threshold being used for their PCR test. So I will say it is highly unlikely although in the lack of information and research right now its hard to definitively rule anything out.