In a recent article in the Harvard Gazette, Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and its Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics stated,
“I think [COVID-19 is] more transmissible than we recognize and actually preventing it from spreading within nursing homes is an extraordinary feat.” He added, “without serological tests, months of frenzied attention on the virus will still leave us short of understanding what we’re dealing with.”