COVID-19 Case-Cluster-Study

The study was commissioned and is co-financed by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia and is led by Hendrik Streeck.

In the public sphere, the marketing agency StoryMachine presented its results on Facebook and Twitter.

[citation needed] The results of the study garnered cross-national media attention.

[2] The study aimed to determine lethality of and immunity to SARS-CoV-2; it also estimated the number of unrecorded cases.

[3] Despite the fact that sample size does not determine the representativeness of a study,[4] principal investigator Streeck claims, they examined more persons than recommended by the World Health Organization, the study would "thus be statistically absolutely representative".