The stats

[Songbird]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I often read stats like “60 percent of people have HSV1” or “1 in 6 people have HSV2”. If most people don’t have symptoms or get tested regularly, how does the CDC know how many people have H? 

[100918]

Because what the CDC knows how to do best is make shit up if they don't know the actual answer.

They also probably are going by estimates based on something like a random sample and the stats they got from that.

The truth is, they have NO idea how many people have it, but that's their best guess, like pretty much everything else they put out. I don't trust the CDC for much.