There's no way to derive infection rate at all, unfortunately. Even for pandemic...

SpicyLemonZest on March 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Questioning the Clampdown

There's no way to derive infection rate at all, unfortunately. Even for pandemics in the past, where we can go back and look at all the epidemological data, estimates of infection rates tend to vary by at least 10 percentage points.